Neil deGrasse Tyson on Christopher Nolan | StarTalk

I don’t know if it was because of my
tweets on the movie gravity I don’t know
if that put me on the radar of the
people for the film interstellar but I
was invited to a preview screening of
that film with all of the stars in the
reception and Christopher Nolan was
there and I then I sort of you know
hello might you be interested in coming
on for an interview and he agreed so
that was my sort of access to him and I
think I would have also delighted in
interviewing any one of the stars but
Christopher Nolan is is one of the
creators of that story and of the movie
and so that would be a different
interview than if I’d interviewed one of
the actors and so I like seeing what
goes on in the mind of someone with
futuristic creativity and Christopher
Nolan is just such a person you look at
his portfolio
he’s got movies that have played with
the passage of time time passing at
different rates in different dream
states is it real or is it a dream in an
interstellar he is exploiting the laws
of physics as represented in Einstein’s
relativity theory to have time pass at
different rates among people who are
otherwise contemporaries with one
another people who have children who
relativity says that if you go in the
vicinity of a black hole time ticks
differently for you than it does
others he had a science advisor who’s a
professor of physics at Caltech so it
was fun speaking with a creative
producer because they have such
influence on our dreams giving us ways
to think about the world showing us
futures that we should avoid we should
do all we can to not have the future
that he portrays in that film