Standing on Miller's Planet: 1 Hour = 7 Years (Interstellar Simulation)

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Every second you spend on Miller's planet, about 17 hours pass on Earth. Watch the clock in the corner: by the end of this video, more than a year has gone by back home.

Land on the ocean world from Interstellar, stand in its knee-deep sea under Gargantua, and watch a 1.2 km tidal wave arrive in real time. Then see what the sky there would really look like.

Chapters
0:00 Standing on Miller's planet
0:36 Gargantua
2:44 Miller's planet from space
3:58 Landing
4:48 The wave (real time)
7:00 Riding the wave
7:34 What it would really look like
8:38 Back on Earth

All visuals are our own simulation: the black hole is ray-traced through curved spacetime, and the ocean and the wave are rendered from the numbers given by the film's science advisor. Sizes and distances are adjusted so everything stays visible. This is a fan-made science visualization and is not affiliated with the makers of Interstellar.

Sources
• Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar (2014): Gargantua's mass and spin, 1 hour = 7 years, 1.2 km waves, the rocking planet
• Jean-Pierre Luminet, "The Warped Science of Interstellar" (2015), arXiv:1503.08305
• Jeremy D. Schnittman, "Life on Miller's Planet: The Habitable Zone Around Supermassive Black Holes" (2019), arXiv:1910.00940: the shadow filling half the sky, the blueshifted background radiation
• Wave speed (~450 km/h) is our estimate from shallow-water wave theory: v ≈ √(g·(depth + height)) with g = 1.3 × Earth's

Music
'Eyes In The Void' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
'Starfire' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
'Born Of The Sky' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au