1Murphy's law
墨菲定律
The leading man's daughter in the flim called Murphy, and she is always complaining about the relationship between her name and the unlucky Murphy's law.
Murphy's law is usually thought to be named after Captain Edward Murphy, a development engineer with the United States Air Force in the middle of the last century.Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
The plots of the film have embodied the correctness of murphy's law for many times. It can lead tasks to a right direction except messing things up. The hero saved all the human beings with the action of Murphy's law. We can see from this perspective that the Murphy's law is a kind of interpretation of probability, and it doesn't mean bless, good luck or disasters itself.
《星际穿越》的情节中多次体现了墨菲定律的正确性,但除了把事情搞砸,它也把任务引向好的方面,最后主角也在墨菲定律的作用下挽救了全人类。从这个角度来理解,墨菲定律是一种对概率的诠释,本身并不指代吉凶祸福。
2Relativity、Relative Theory
相对论The theory of relativity, or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.
3Lazarus
拉撒路
Lazarus is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. The name Lazarus is often used to connote apparent restoration to life.
4Wormhole
虫洞
A wormhole, officially known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would fundamentally be a shortcut through spacetime.
5Black Hole
黑洞
A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. In many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole.
6Hyperspace
超空间
Hyperspace refers to reaching the other end of the universe fast through the multi-dimensional space(we live in 4-dimensional space). Hyperspace refers to the dimensional space which is more than four dimensions. String theory (M theory ) predicts that there should be 11 hyperspatial dimensions.
7The Slingshot Effect
引力弹弓
The slingshot effect is used to accelerate a spacecraft in a planetary flyby。NASA calls this a gravity assist, and exploits it to save fuel in missions to outer planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.