Are there any actually smart movies about mathematics or science where the writers actually did their homework on the subject?
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Are there any actually smart movies about mathematics or science where the writers actually did their homework on the subject?
Oppenheimer
there's almost no science in that movie. Fantastic movie tho
Does that even count since it's just following the book almost exactly and the book is the one that did all the research?
I like vsauce videos
no because that shit is boring as frick to watch so they best you get is a montage of an autist breaking down and doing weird shit
Primer
Apparently Nolan and his writers actually met with astrophysicists when they did Interstellar to make sure everything was scientifically accurate movie is still dumb though
they met with kip thorne who's basically a moron, worse than black science man but since he isn't black he doesn't get any attention.
how is gravity strong enough to distort time but not strong enough to effect the human body in the same location?
the movie explains this phenomenon with the concept of a rotating black hole creating a stable region known as the "ergosphere." In this area, the gravitational forces are strong enough to affect time dilation significantly, but not so extreme as to tear apart the human body. The movie takes creative liberties with speculative science to tell its story.
>everything was scientifically accurate
>a planet so close to a black hole that all it's oceans are pulled on the planet's rotation
>except this very thin layer of water, that's really really heavy
>Also all the water can raise the size of a mountain
>the planet doesn't disintegrate
>Also on the planet there's a different time than in orbit
>Even if both orbit the black hole at approximately the same distance
>The ship doesn't disintegrate
>The ship doesn't even change orbit
>scientifically accurate
>scientifically accurate
Yeah, pretty close. Just because you don't understand the science doesn't mean it's automatically wrong. Sure there is some dramatic license taken on the theories but not to the level your under educated brain thinks
>"to make sure everything was scientifically accurate"
>point out 6 very gross, very big inaccuracies
>"You don't understand the math ;)"
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Interstellar
Altered States and Network are probably the smartest in terms of complex dialogue with acceptable reasoning which still have qualitative production (wellknown actors and high budget).
Michael Chrichtons movies do also blend quality/science well but his novels are probably better if you're more interested in the scientifical explanations.
another, perhaps lesser known movie, at least on Cinemaphile, which does rather astutely observe sciences trouble at diagnozing diseases in an accurate matter and spins it off philosophically is The Incredible Shrinking Man
Its a bit old, but the plot and script is solid, and the ending magnificient
primer
that one abbot and Costello skit
Smart people like, read books and stuff
>tfw never read books cuz i think its boring and takes too long
bros, am i actually stupid and low iq
Same. Haven't read in years.
yes, you are stupid. and only boring people get bored so you are boring also. being boring and being stupid often go together
Yeah, kinda. But it's okay anon
why? do books somehow magically make you smarter?
They can boring and long but you should do read anyways
>you should do read
100% kino.
I've been told Mr. Robot did a decent job portraying programming and hacking. No idea if that's true though.
there's a german movie called 23 which accurately portray the early stages of the hacking era
it's rather different than Hackers but equaly great
decent is probably the right word. The only things I noticed were
>One or 2 people will program something in a couple days that would take a team months in real life
>The idea that they'd know enough about these super secure systems to write a worm to do everything automatically is a little silly
>The idea that these people are such great programmers that testing is something trivial is even more silly
>They do the thing where they treat Linux as if it's some super hacker thing
For Hollywood it's really good though. The opening scene to the series where he's explaining to that guy how he knows he's hosting child porn is pretty much exactly how something like that would go down though
Nah. You get into weird paradoxes that are better to pretend don't exist in your fiction to move the story along.
1. Time travel violates causality by placing effect before cause.
2. Teleport violates causality by placing cause and effect as a simultaneous event.
3. Cheating the speed of light would send you backwards in time, again placing effect before cause.
4. Going to an alternate universe by time travel, worm holes, other means would not displace your alternate self. This is hard to film because most actors aren't twins so they just have the actors be themselves but from another world.
Etc.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Two weeks notice
Three amigos
Four brothers
Fifth element
Sixth sense
Seven samurai
Hateful eight
Ninth gate
Ten commandments
basically always switch
>dude, its not 50/50 even though you only have two choices but it’s not because… IT JUST ISNT OK?
You can use all the creative mathematics you want, but a choice between two items where one of them is correct is 50/50
This thread is probably going to turn into an argument about the Monty Hall problem.
Imagine if there's 100 door. You select one and he gets rid of 98. What are the odds you selected the right one?
He gets rid of 98 you pick one, what’s the chance of picking correctly? In non-creative mathematics, the order doesn’t matter
You're choosing between picking one door or picking the other 99 doors. That he shows you what's behind 98 of them in a way where the car will never be revealed is immaterial.
You pick one, he eliminates all doors except yours and another. Another person enters the room and we ask him what is the chance of your door being correct? He will probably say 50/50 because he hasn’t seen the door elimination to color his reasoning
The trouble is theory vs practice
Math views the world in absolute and simplistic terms. It's either 1 or 0. There's no room for entertainment or feelings.
In the show business there's room for tricks and jokes. They can shift and move stuff without you knowing. The odds are always against you. You're either a sucker or not. That's the choice. If you switch door you basically agree that the game is rigged. You admit you accept shrewd politicians and fiat money. If you stand firm by your choice you're playing your own game. You're either lucky or not. That's it.
i see what you mean but they can still rig it can't they
if they rigged it, they haven't rigged you at the very least
I hate this problem.
I always want to say that the choices were eliminated and they don't matter now. I always want to say that 2 of the same choices shouldn't be counted as different outcomes. But the fricking evidence is against me.
holy crap it's a game show for muslims ahah
The Martian was pretty grounded, r-right? Other than the iron man thing in the end.