The Parts Of 'Interstellar' Even Neil deGrasse Tyson Didn't Understand

Two days after Neil deGrasse Tyson praised a lot of the science in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," the famed astrophysicist focused on some of the film's fiction. Over a series of nine tweets that he called "Mysteries of #Interstellar," Tyson took the movie to task for some of its plot contrivances. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Mysteries of #Interstellar: If you can poke through a tesseract and touch books, why not just write a note & pass it through.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Stars vastly outnumber Black Holes. Why is the best Earthlike planet one that orbits a Black Hole

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Who in the universe would ever know the titles of all their books, from behind, on an bookshelf.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: How a pickup truck can drive with a flat tire among densely planted corn stalks taller than it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: If wormholes exist among our planets, then why can’t one open up near Earth instead of Saturn.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Gotta tell you. Mars (right next door) looks waay safer than those new planets they travelled to.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: If you crack your space helmet yet keep fighting, the Planet's air can’t be all that bad for you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Can’t imagine a future where escaping Earth via wormhole is a better plan than just fixing Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Mysteries of #Interstellar: In this unreal future, they teach unscientific things in science class. Oh, wait. That is real.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 11, 2014

Much has been made about the confounding plot to "Interstellar," but audience members should take solace in the fact that not even Tyson understood everything. For instance, that bookshelf he mentions above? That's a reference to the end of the film, where Matthew McConaughey's Coop is in a fifth dimensional tesseract which exists just behind the bookcase in his daughter's bedroom. There, he uses Morse code to communicate with her by pushing books off the shelf. The book titles are completely irrelevant to that task. Good point about the wormhole, though.

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