Talking "Interstellar"

I thought Interstellar was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen – in fact about an hour in, I’d taken my wrist watch off, started smelling it, and playing with it as if it was a bird. To me – and I read, write and edit work every day – it felt like the Nolans threw millions of dollars at a half-baked short story they wrote over the weekend. But Michael Park, lecturer at Stanford University and holder of a Ph.D in theoretical particle physics from Rutgers University, saw the movie’s merits – and then some. Park, whose research has focused mostly on developing strategies for searching for new laws of physics at the Large Hadron Collider but who now is studying cosmology, is, um, really smart. He and I talked about the gravity, Einstein and the blight.