Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
IMDb Rating: 7.2
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Writers: James Ward Byrkit (screenplay), James Ward Byrkit (story), Alex Manugian (story)
Release Date: 6 August 2014
Awards
5 wins & 5 nominations.
SCIENTIFIC PLOT
The film involves eight people at a dinner party. During their dinner, there is a comet that is passing over them. This causes their house and the occupants to intertwine with multiple such houses and occupants from other realities. There is a dark zone in between the realities. When people pass through the dark zone, they leave their reality and enter another reality at random.
The multiverse (or meta-universe) is a hypothetical set of various possible universes including the universe which we live in. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy and the physical laws and constants that describe them.
The miscellaneous distinct universes within the multiverse are called the “parallel universes”, “other universes” or “alternative universes
Byrkit told an interviewer, “For about a year, all I did was make charts and maps and drew diagrams of houses, arrows pointing where everyone was going, trying to keep track of different iterations. Months and months of tracking fractured realities, looking up what actual scientists believe about the nature of reality — Schrödinger’s cat and all that. It was research, but despite all the graphs and charts, I think our whole idea was that it has to be character-based. We want the logic of our internal rules to be sound, and we wanted it to be something people could watch 12 times and still discover a new layer
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement) in the course of developing the thought experiment.
GOOFS
(at around 1h 6 mins) When Hugh is calculating the different outcomes on his iPhone, you can see from the display that he has reception – which they claim none of them has.
Syzygy 