The Planet That Inspired Interstellar's Most Terrifying Scene

In Interstellar, the wave planet looks made up. It isn't.

Miller's planet runs on real physics. The waves really would be that big. That one hour on the surface really would cost you seven years back home. Nolan didn't invent any of it, he hired a physicist and built the scene around what actually happens to a world sitting that close to a black hole.

The science: why the water climbs that high, what's happening to time down there, and what that beach would do to a human body.

Nolan got it more right than almost anyone realizes.

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