Interstellar 'should be shown in school lessons'
The film Interstellar should be shown in school science lessons, a scientific journal has urged.
They say their call follows a new insight gained into black holes as a result of producing the visual effects for the Hollywood film.
Experts have also confirmed that the portrayal of "wormholes" is scientifically accurate.
Scientific papers have been published in the American Journal of Physics and in Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Dr David Jackson, who printed one of the papers in this month's AJP said "publishing this paper was a no brainer".
He added: "The physics has been very carefully reviewed by experts and found to be accurate. The publication will encourage physics teachers to show the film in their classes to get across ideas about general relativity."
The director of Interstellar, Christopher Nolan, told BBC News that Dr Jackson's comments and the two journal publications were "very important" to him.
"Right from the beginning we all really believed it's time to inspire another generation to really look outwards and to look to the stars again.
"We hoped that by dramatising science and making it something that could be entertaining for kids we might inspire some of the astronauts of tomorrow - that would be the ultimate goal of the project," he said.
(continued, nothing like that in my day...neither was there much choice on TV. Still got 'science' though. No you don't end up in the woo-library...new age thing at the end.)
