As moviegoers were mesmerized by the futuristic stories in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar, Harvard University’s theoretical physicist Lisa Randall says the high-grossing movie – even though "technically accurate" – failed to illustrate the type of extra dimensions she tries to picture in her own mind.
"They have to make it [the fifth dimension] visible to people looking at the screen, which means that some of the subtle effects – that are on scales that you’d never be able to see with your naked eyes, won’t be shown in the movie," Randall explains in a recent interview with China Money Network in Hong Kong during her trip in Asia.
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