Thor and theoretical physicists - movie review

Vịt and I finally watched Marvel’s Thor, a film based on a comic book that was inspired by the Norse god of thunder. It’s about an arrogant warrior who, at the start of the movie, violates a truce by attacking the Frost Giants. As punishment for breaking the truce, Thor is exiled to earth. What’s fascinating about the film is the Einstein-Rosen bridge for Thor’s passageway to our planet. Thank goodness movie producers sometimes side with the scientists to call the passageway the Einstein-Rosen Bridge instead of a wormhole. For that, the film keeps you in the realm of what is theoretically plausible, and what makes the film feel real.

My all-time favorite flick is the 1997’s Contact. Much of Contact “feel real” goes back to astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who wrote the original novel. Jodie Foster’s wormhole ride to a distant planet shows enough quantum theory to be surprisingly credible, and what might be possible one day. Anyhow, we’d give Thor a grade B. (Thanks goodness for fined abs Chris Hemsworth). We’d highly recommend Contact, if you haven’t seen it.