A professor is calling for only one violation of scientific principles per blockbuster, but that's missing the point of Hollywood
Hollywood has lied to us! But now scientists, armed to the teeth with slide rules and pipettes, are setting it straight. Offended by the scientific unreality perpetrated by such blockbusters as Starship Troopers and Angels & Demons, Us physics professor Sidney Perkowitz has suggested guidelines for Hollywood that permit just one violation of the laws of physics per film.
It is beyond question that the adaptation of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons is offensive to science. The plot features (Spoiler Alert, as if anybody cares) a lump of stolen antimatter fashioned into a bomb to destroy the Vatican.
To those who view this quest as noble, alas antimatter doesn't come in lumps. At Cern, the giant particle physics lab from which the fictional anti-stuff was pilfered, they have managed to make a few particles of anti-hydrogen,...
Hollywood has lied to us! But now scientists, armed to the teeth with slide rules and pipettes, are setting it straight. Offended by the scientific unreality perpetrated by such blockbusters as Starship Troopers and Angels & Demons, Us physics professor Sidney Perkowitz has suggested guidelines for Hollywood that permit just one violation of the laws of physics per film.
It is beyond question that the adaptation of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons is offensive to science. The plot features (Spoiler Alert, as if anybody cares) a lump of stolen antimatter fashioned into a bomb to destroy the Vatican.
To those who view this quest as noble, alas antimatter doesn't come in lumps. At Cern, the giant particle physics lab from which the fictional anti-stuff was pilfered, they have managed to make a few particles of anti-hydrogen,...
- 2/22/2010
- by Adam Rutherford
- The Guardian - Film News
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