FYSE 130 - Physics In Film

It really seems like the producers of the movie contact were out of touch  with their physics in some parts of the movie (sorry for the pun). Nearing the end of the movie the writers made an error in their physics and it really begs to be rewritten. So, here is my attempt at it. Nearing the end of the movie, Jodie Foster's character comes back from her trip into the space void after falling through the contraption. In essence, what appears to be 18 hours in Jodie's reference frame, is actually only 1 or 2 seconds in the earth's frame of reference. This is sort of right, however, it's backward as to what relatively and the twin paradox actually states should happen. It should have been 1 or 2 seconds in Jodies from of reference and 18 hours for the people on earth if she was traveling at the speed of light for any given portion of time. Even warping space-time with a warp hole would cause the same effects such as the movie suggests happens. So, in essence, Jodie would ...

Titan A.E. - Earth is Dead and So is Physics Titan A.E: A Death Star on Steroids Picture a literal giant cannon that shoots pure energy into an object for massive cataclysmic damage. Picture it splitting the Earth into hundreds of tiny pieces destroying everything you know and love and picture it wiping out the moon with its large chunks of debris. Wasn’t that fun? That’s basically the opening scene to the movie Titan A.E. ; an animated sci-fi film about a dude name kayle who has to go on this mission through the galaxy to find a spaceship his dad built that can literally create a planet. This lack of care for physics is shown in the first opening scene of the movie that I just talked about. Take a look:    Basically, big alien ship comes to earth, big alien ship powers up its laser, laser destroys Earth, earth destroys moon, and we are left to ponder how the heck everything that just happened actually happened. Well there are some things that we can analyze abo...