“On Tenet, I believe that a scientific advisor is missing”: a physicist judges the level of credibility of these masterpieces of science fiction-Actus Ciné

Tenet, an SCI-Fi masterpiece to widen your head …

Tearing the story of an American spy who must save the world from an announced apocalypse, Tenet was acclaimed when he was released in 2020, the public that is plebidging a complex scenario handling scientific theories PLU. Philosopher of Sciences and Director of Research at CEA, Etienne Klein is the author of several scientific trials. At the end of the feature film, sensitive to the promise of a futuristic film handling demanding concepts from harsh sciences, he can't wait to see this film … which will finally annoy him!

… but which would lack seriousness for a famous scientist

The physicist is not very convinced by the invasions of extraterrestrials such as Mars Attack: “ Can Martians disembark? No. Travel time is several million years is far too long, you have to be able to reproduce during the trip. ”

He is not much more lover of travel in the future and the past back to the future, and explains it as: “In all time trips to the cinema, there is a problem because it takes two times: the proper time of the time traveler, the more time in which he travels! So we can't talk about time travel, but first in a second step. ” And Tenet? It is an understatement to say that the huge box of 2020 left it cold!

The cinephile scientist specifies: “It is a film that mixes the course of time and the arrow of time, it mixes the reversibility of time and the reversibility of temporal phenomena. These are two completely different things, so yes, it annoyed me. There are some who come from the future, there are bizarre fights … ”

In his opinion, another success by Nolan made with the assistance of Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize in physics recognized by his peers, benefits from an acceptable scientific credit. We can conclude that pure and hard scientists will prefer interstellar to Tenet!