CONTENTS Foreword Preface 1 A Scientist in Hollywood: The Genesis of Interstellar I. FOUNDATIONS 2 Our Universe in Brief 3 The Laws That Control 4 Warped Time and Space, and Tidal Gravity 5 Black Holes II. GARGANTUA 6 Gargantua’s Anatomy 7 Gravitational Slingshots 8 Imaging Gargantua 9 Disks and Jets 10 Accident Is the First Building Block of Evolution III. DISASTER ON EARTH 11 Blight 12 Gasping for Oxygen 13 Interstellar Travel IV. THE WORMHOLE 14 Wormholes 15 Visualizing Interstellar’s Wormhole 16 Discovering the Wormhole: Gravitational Waves V. EXPLORING GARGANTUA’S ENVIRONS 17 Miller’s Planet 18 Gargantua’s Vibrations 19 Mann’s Planet 20 The Endurance VI. EXTREME PHYSICS 21 The Fourth and Fifth Dimensions 22 Bulk Beings 23 Confining Gravity 24 Gravitational Anomalies 25 The Professor’s Equation 26 Singularities and Quantum Gravity VII. CLIMAX 27 The Volcano’s Rim 28 Into Gargantua 29 The Tesseract 30 Messaging the Past 31 Lifting Colonies off Earth Where Can You Learn More? Some Technical Notes Acknowledgments Figure Credits Bibliography Index of People Index of Subjects