{"id":736,"date":"2013-11-01T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/?p=736"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:30:18","slug":"a-scientist-goes-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/2013\/11\/a-scientist-goes-to-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scientist goes to the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/01410\/cinema_1410265c.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"202\" \/>There\u2019s much more science in the cinema than you might have thought. Either subtly incorporated into the storyline or used explicitly as in sci-fi, science is woven into many popular films, but not all of it very convincingly! Which famous romantic comedy gets its teeth into the weirdness of quantum mechanics, and in which clangers are the laws of science apparently different in Hollywood from the rest of the Universe? 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