"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here." — Cooper, 2067
Author: Devanik (GitHub: Devanik21) Repository: INTERSTELLAR — Gargantua Science Platform · May 2026 Affiliation: Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Agartala · Samsung ISWDP Fellow (IISc)
INTERSTELLAR is a serious, research-grade, interactive science platform built as a rigorous tribute to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014). It is not a fan page or a visualisation toy. It is a complete computational physics environment spanning 21,573 lines of modular Python across nine files, orchestrating eight independent scientific backends through a single unified Streamlit command centre.
Every module implements genuine physics: the Kerr metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates is evaluated exactly; special and general relativistic time dilation is computed from the invariant line element; the Morris-Thorne traversable wormhole is treated through the Einstein field equations; the Tesseract decoder implements braneworld ADD/RS gravity and real signal encoding schemes (BPSK, OOK, bookshelf binary, Hamming codes); the Quantum Singularity laboratory covers Loop Quantum Gravity area spectra, BKL Kasner oscillations, Hawking Page curves via the island rule, out-of-time-order correlator scrambling, and AdS/CFT holographic entanglement.
The interface is rendered in a hand-crafted dark space theme — star-field background, Gargantua amber-gold glow, wormhole violet gradient, animated scan lines, monospace terminal typography — with zero external UI framework dependencies beyond Streamlit and Matplotlib.
INTERSTELLAR/
│
├── ENDURANCE.py ← Mission Control Frontend (~2,579 lines)
│ ├── §1 Backend import system (safe-import with fallback UI)
│ ├── §2 Mission constants & TARS dialogue bank
│ ├── §3 Master CSS — star-field, Gargantua glow, wormhole gradient
│ ├── §4 Global session state initialisation
│ ├── §5 Background image loader (base64 injection)
│ ├── §6 Utility components: KPI cards, terminal blocks, progress bars
│ ├── §7 Sidebar: navigation, mission strip, TARS context engine
│ ├── §8 Boot sequence: animated terminal with system initialisation
│ ├── §9 Mission Overview: live KPI grid, Gargantua schematic, Plan A/B
│ ├── §10 System Status: dependency health, file system diagnostics
│ ├── §11 Safe backend wrappers with traceback recovery
│ ├── §12 Global Matplotlib dark theme injection
│ ├── §13 Welcome banner with phase-aware mission timeline
│ └── §14 Main router: dispatches page key → backend function
│
├── gravity_engine.py ← Module I — Kerr BH Physics (~3,036 lines)
├── relativity_calculator.py ← Module II — SR/GR Engine (~2,801 lines)
├── planet_analyzer.py ← Module III — Habitability (~2,706 lines)
├── wormhole_navigator.py ← Module IV — Wormhole Physics (~2,088 lines)
├── tesseract_decoder.py ← Module V — Gravity Signals (~2,176 lines)
├── crew_telemetry.py ← Module VI — Ship & Crew (~2,179 lines)
├── mission_reporter.py ← Module VII — Mission Intel (~1,808 lines)
├── quantum_singularity.py ← Module VIII— Planck/LQG/BKL (~2,200 lines)
│
└── requirements.txt
Total: 21,573 lines · 9 Python files · 8 science backends · 1 mission control frontend
SIDEBAR MODULES
│
├── ✦ MISSION OVERVIEW — Live mission dashboard
├── ⬡ GRAVITY ENGINE — Kerr BH · Accretion disk · Gravitational waves · Tidal forces
├── ⏱ RELATIVITY CALC — SR/GR · Time dilation · Twin paradox · Cooper-Murph divergence
├── 🪐 PLANET SCANNER — ESI · Habitability zone · Atmosphere · Biosignatures
├── ⟳ WORMHOLE NAVIGATOR — Morris-Thorne geometry · Exotic matter · Traversal calculator
├── ◈ TESSERACT DECODER — 4D geometry · Gravity signals · Murphy's equation · BPSK/OOK
├── ⛨ CREW TELEMETRY — Crew vitals · TARS/CASE AI · Ship systems · Cryosleep
├── ▤ MISSION REPORTER — Lazarus archive · Plan A/B progress · Blight model
├── ⚛ QUANTUM SINGULARITY — LQG · BKL oscillations · Page curve · OTOC · ER=EPR
└── ℹ SYSTEM STATUS — Backend health · Dependency check · File diagnostics
File: gravity_engine.py · 3,036 lines
The Gravity Engine models Gargantua as a maximally spinning Kerr black hole with mass parameter M ≈ 1e8 solar masses and dimensionless spin a_star ≈ 1 − 1e−14. The KerrBlackHole dataclass implements the full Boyer-Lindquist metric tensor, all key radii, tidal forces, gravitational wave synthesis, accretion disk emission, and the Penrose process.
The covariant metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, defining the spacetime fabric of Gargantua:
The Kerr auxiliary scalar functions evaluated at every grid cell:
Coordinate singularities of the metric define the outer and inner horizons and the ergosurface:
The ergosphere occupies the region r_+ < r < r_E(θ). Inside this shell, no static observer can exist; all matter co-rotates with the hole (frame dragging).
The angular velocity of a Zero Angular Momentum Observer — the Lense-Thirring precession frequency:
The orbital angular velocity for a test mass on a stable equatorial circular orbit:
The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius, the inner edge of the accretion disk:
For a_star → 1 (Gargantua), r_ISCO → r_+ → r_s/2 — the disk extends almost to the horizon, yielding maximum radiative efficiency.
The Hawking temperature at the outer horizon, vanishing as a_star → 1:
The Novikov-Thorne radiative efficiency, the fraction of rest mass converted to radiation:
For Gargantua's near-extremal spin, η ≈ 0.42, more than four times the Schwarzschild value.
Energy extraction from the ergosphere via particle splitting:
Test-particle motion in curved spacetime follows the geodesic equation, which the engine integrates numerically:
Gravitational wave synthesis in the engine uses the quadrupole approximation. For a binary of chirp mass M_c at luminosity distance d_L, the peak strain and frequency at merger are:
The tidal acceleration across a body of height h near a black hole:
File: relativity_calculator.py · 2,801 lines
This module implements a complete two-tier relativistic engine: SpecialRelativity for SR kinematics in flat spacetime, and GeneralRelativity for Kerr geodesics and gravitational time dilation. A dedicated MissionTimeline class reconstructs the exact Cooper-Murph age divergence from first principles.
The Lorentz factor and its derived kinematic quantities, implemented as static methods:
The four-velocity of a massive particle with three-velocity v:
The relativistically correct composition of two collinear velocities:
For non-collinear case via Lorentz boost matrix on the four-velocity vector, preserving u_mu u^mu = -c^2.
The invariant interval, distinguishing timelike, spacelike, and null separations:
Four-momentum and relativistic energy-momentum invariant:
The proper time accumulation rate for a crew member orbiting at Boyer-Lindquist radius r with angular velocity Omega, derived from the invariant line element:
Substituting all metric components yields the master tracking equation:
On Miller's World, one hour of proper time equals seven Earth years of coordinate time — a total dilation factor:
This requires the orbit to be extremely close to the ISCO of Gargantua, where the combination of gravitational redshift and orbital kinematic blueshift achieves this precise ratio.
The ageing of the stay-at-home twin (Murph) versus the travelling twin (Cooper) for a cruise phase at velocity v over coordinate distance d, with acceleration legs of magnitude g_accel:
Longitudinal Doppler factor for source velocity v (approaching: +, receding: −):
Relativistic aberration of light-ray angle:
File: planet_analyzer.py · 2,706 lines
The Planet Scanner evaluates candidate worlds — Miller's World, Mann's Planet, and Edmunds' World — against a multi-index habitability scoring framework. The Planet dataclass stores physical parameters; the HabitabilityAnalyser computes ESI, atmospheric retention, biosignature probability, and tidal locking timescale.
A weighted geometric mean of four parameter deviations from Earth's reference values:
Reference weights: w_R = 0.57, w_rho = 1.07, w_ve = 0.70, w_Ts = 5.58.
Planetary equilibrium temperature without greenhouse forcing:
With greenhouse forcing Delta F_GHG (W/m²), the effective surface temperature:
The global particle loss flux across the exobase, governing long-term atmospheric stability:
Retention criterion: lambda_c > 6 ensures negligible escape on geological timescales.
The characteristic time for a planet to become rotationally synchronised with its host star:
where omega_0 is the initial rotation rate, I is the planet's moment of inertia, Q is the tidal quality factor, and k_{2p} is the Love number.
A probabilistic composite of atmospheric spectroscopic indicators normalised to [0, 1]:
Active signatures: O₂, O₃, CH₄, N₂O, H₂O, CO₂, dimethyl sulphide, phosphine.
File: wormhole_navigator.py · 2,088 lines
The Wormhole Navigator models the Saturn transit gateway as a spherically symmetric traversable Lorentzian wormhole via the Morris-Thorne metric. The WormholeGeometry dataclass supports four shape function families; ExoticMatterPhysics computes Casimir energies and quantum inequality bounds; WormholeTraversalCalculator evaluates transit times, tidal forces, and survivability criteria.
The general traversable wormhole line element in proper-length gauge:
Flare-out condition at throat r_0, required for traversability:
The Einstein equations G_mu_nu = (8π G / c^4) T_mu_nu evaluated in the orthonormal frame:
Null Energy Condition violation (mandatory for traversability):
The Casimir energy density between parallel conducting plates separated by d:
The traveller's proper time to cross throat of width 2l_0 at traversal velocity v_tr:
Tidal safety constraint — tidal acceleration across human body height h_body ≈ 2 m:
Ford-Roman constraint on how negative the energy density of the exotic matter source can be, setting a practical floor on the required plate separation:
File: tesseract_decoder.py · 2,176 lines
The Tesseract Decoder implements the bulk-brane gravity communication channel through which Cooper transmits quantum gravity data to Murphy via watch-hand and bookshelf displacements. The module combines four-dimensional polytope geometry (real 4D rotation matrices and stereographic projection), braneworld gravity theory, and digital signal processing (BPSK, OOK, Hamming error correction, CRC-16 integrity checks).
At sub-millimetre scales, gravity propagates through the n extra compact dimensions. The modified Newtonian potential on our 3-brane:
Metric perturbations h_mu_nu generated by stress-tensor pulses at y = 0 (our brane), propagating through the AdS_5 bulk with coordinate y:
The tesseract module inverts the bulk equation to decode gravity anomalies by convolving with the 5D boundary Green's function:
The information-theoretic bound on the data rate of Cooper's gravity-wave channel to Murphy, modelled as an additive Gaussian noise channel:
The TesseractGeometry class generates exact rotation matrices in each of the six planes of four-dimensional space. The XW-plane rotation, for example:
Stereographic projection of 4D vertex (x, y, z, w) to 3D (then to 2D for display):
The bookshelf displacement signal s(t) encodes bit b_i ∈ {0, 1} as a binary displacement over interval [i · T_bit, (i+1) · T_bit]:
Hamming(7,4) error correction encodes 4 data bits into 7-bit codewords, detecting and correcting all single-bit errors. The minimum Hamming distance of the code is d_min = 3.
File: crew_telemetry.py · 2,179 lines
The Crew Telemetry module models the physiological state of each crew member (Cooper, Brand, Romilly, Doyle) under long-duration spaceflight, provides a complete ship-module degradation system with Weibull reliability curves, and implements the TARS and CASE AI robots as AIRobot instances with configurable honesty (90%) and humour (75%) parameters, dialogue generation, and articulation panel simulation.
Vital-sign evolution under microgravity and radiation stress over elapsed mission days t:
Radiation cumulative dose D(t) with GCR flux Phi_GCR and shielding factor eta_shield:
Alert thresholds: D > 500 mSv → elevated; D > 1000 mSv → critical.
A weighted combination of haematological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal sub-scores:
Weibull failure probability for a module under stress sigma over operating time t:
Shape parameter β > 1 models wear-out failure; β < 1 models infant mortality.
TARS classifies biometric signals via a physics-informed Harmonic Resonance Field. The generalised wavefunction evolves as:
The non-monotonic resonance kernel detecting periodic physiological signatures:
File: mission_reporter.py · 1,808 lines
The Mission Reporter maintains the complete Lazarus archive (12 probes), computes Plan A progress against the 42-coefficient gravitational equation, manages the Plan B embryo bank (5,000 profiles), and models the exponential blight spread curve with extinction timeline projection.
The equation Murphy must complete has 42 independent coefficients. Current status:
TARS data crystal: 30 coefficients resolved
Prof. Brand (hidden): 12 coefficients (Hawking radiation terms — later disclosed)
Murph (final solve): 0 → 42 (post-tesseract)
Progress: 30/42 = 71.4%
Genetic diversity score of the embryo bank, measured as the average pairwise Jaccard dissimilarity across genome profiles:
Minimum Viable Population criterion: N_viable ≥ 160 (Franklin 1980, Lande 1995). With N = 5000 embryos at 94% viability, N_viable ≈ 4700 ≫ N_MVP.
The blight propagates as a reaction-diffusion process across Earth's agricultural zones:
Under worst-case r = 0.18 yr^{-1} spread rate with declining countermeasure efficacy delta(t), the extinction timeline resolves to ~2095 for total crop failure.
Signal quality for each probe is scored on a 0–10 scale combining received power budget and data completeness:
Active probe inventory: 12 launched, 1 active (Edmunds'), 1 falsified (Mann's), 5 silent, 4 confirmed non-viable.
File: quantum_singularity.py · 2,200 lines
The Quantum Singularity laboratory is the most theoretically advanced module in the platform. It implements eight independent computational engines covering the full frontier of quantum gravity research: Planck foam nucleation, Loop Quantum Gravity area/volume spectra, BKL Kasner oscillations, Hawking evaporation and the Page curve via the island rule, Unruh vacuum thermodynamics, Casimir and Schwinger effects, SYK scrambling and OTOC dynamics, and AdS/CFT holographic entanglement entropy.
The four fundamental Planck scales (CODATA 2018):
Virtual black hole nucleation rate in the Wheeler foam background:
Spacetime foam genus distribution for a 2-sphere of physical radius r:
Lorentz invariance violation — modified dispersion relation at order n:
In the Ashtekar-Lewandowski kinematic Hilbert space, the area operator acts on spin-network states with discrete spectrum:
The Barbero-Immirzi parameter γ = 0.2375. The area gap (minimum non-zero eigenvalue, j_min = 1/2):
The LQC effective Friedmann equation — the Big Bang singularity replaced by a quantum bounce:
The quantum-corrected Raychaudhuri equation (positive pressure term creates repulsion near bounce):
Near a spacelike singularity, the general Kasner metric and exponent constraints:
The three Kasner exponents parametrised by the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov variable u ≥ 1:
The BKL map governing epoch transitions as t → 0:
Mean era length from the Gauss-Kuzmin continued-fraction distribution:
Temperature, luminosity, and evaporation time for a Schwarzschild black hole of initial mass M_0:
The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and scrambling time:
The radiation entropy is determined by extremising the generalised entropy functional over quantum extremal surfaces (islands):
The Page time t_Page ≈ t_evap / 2 marks the transition from the no-island to the island saddle, restoring unitarity (entropy decreasing phase).
Unruh temperature and Planck spectrum seen by a uniformly accelerating Rindler observer:
Schwinger pair-production rate per unit 4-volume in electric field E summed over all Landau levels:
The Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford bound on the quantum Lyapunov exponent:
The out-of-time-order correlator — diagnostic of quantum information scrambling:
The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Hamiltonian for N Majorana fermions with random q-body couplings:
GUE Wigner-Dyson level spacing statistics in the chaotic phase:
Entanglement entropy of boundary region A via the RT minimal bulk surface γ_A:
For a 2D CFT interval ℓ at zero temperature and at finite inverse temperature β:
Holographic mutual information phase transition at critical separation d_c:
ER=EPR — the thermofield double state shared by two boundary CFTs corresponds to the maximally entangled Einstein-Rosen bridge between two black holes:
Holographic complexity (CV conjecture) grows linearly at late times:
The interior Kerr geodesic from the outer horizon to the ring singularity, parametrised by the cycloid angle η:
The maximum proper time available inside Gargantua's horizon for information processing:
The Bekenstein information bound on TARS's quantum data crystal of energy E and radius R:
The Randall-Sundrum bulk graviton transmission amplitude — signal fidelity from Cooper's position at bulk depth y to our brane:
The landing page after the boot sequence renders a live mission dashboard with:
- KPI Strip: Mission Day, Earth Year (2067), Plan A Progress (71.4%), Wormhole Status (STABLE), Blight Severity (CRITICAL), TARS Status (NOMINAL)
- Gargantua Schematic: Matplotlib figure with accretion disk colour gradient (Novikov-Thorne thermal model), Doppler blueshift/redshift asymmetry (left-side brightening from relativistic beaming), photon ring at
r_ph, ISCO boundary atr_ISCO, shadow interior atr_shadow = 5.196 M - Plan A / Plan B Panel: Progress bars, coefficient counts, embryo bank viability
- Planet Candidate ESI Bars: Miller (0.68), Mann (0.12), Edmunds (0.85)
- Lazarus Archive Summary: 12 probes, status breakdown
- Earth Blight Status: Per-crop loss percentages (Wheat 85%, Corn 92%, Rice 72%, Okra 45%, Cassava 30%)
- TARS Log: Six rotating status messages
- Module Card Grid: 8 cards with per-module status indicators
- Technical Appendix (expandable): Full closed-form field equation library
On first visit, an animated terminal renders the system initialisation sequence line by line with colour-coded status:
INTERSTELLAR SYSTEM CONTROL
Version 3.0.0 — Build 2067.730
NASA Quantum Gravity Observatory — Deep Space Division
Initialising Kerr metric computations... [CYAN]
Loading Gargantua spacetime fabric... [CYAN]
Calibrating gravitational wave detectors... [CYAN]
Establishing wormhole telemetry link... [CYAN]
Loading TARS personality matrix... [Humour: 75%] [GOLD]
Decrypting TARS quantum data crystal... [GOLD]
Importing Murphy's equation coefficients... 30/42 [ORANGE]
Calculating Miller's World time dilation... 1h = 7yr [CYAN]
Plan A progress: 71.4% [ORANGE]
Quantum Singularity Lab: ONLINE [GREEN]
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL — 8 BACKENDS ONLINE [GREEN]
The boot cursor (▌) blinks on the current line; each line fades in with a 0.07 s delay.
The platform uses a hand-built CSS design system with no external UI library:
| Token | Value | Usage |
|---|---|---|
--gold |
#E8C46A |
Primary accent, titles, KPI values |
--blue |
#4FC3F7 |
Relativity, wormhole data, info |
--purple |
#8060ff |
Quantum, wormhole navigator |
--green |
#81C784 |
System OK, crew nominal, Edmunds |
--orange |
#FF8800 |
Gravity engine, Plan A, warnings |
--red |
#D154FF |
Critical alerts, offline modules |
--bg0 |
#020408 |
Absolute darkest background |
--font-mono |
Share Tech Mono |
Terminal, data panels, tables |
--font-head |
Rajdhani |
Section headers, titles |
--font-body |
Exo 2 |
Body text, descriptions |
--glow-gold |
0 0 12px rgba(232,196,106,0.25) |
Interactive hover glow |
Ambient elements rendered as fixed CSS layers:
star-field— 12 radial-gradient point sources simulating starsgargantua-glow— orange/amber radial gradient, bottom-rightwormhole-glow— violet radial gradient, top-left
Animations: pulse-gold (2 s ease), blink (1 s step), fadeInUp (0.3 s), scanDown (scan line traverse)
TARS is implemented as an AIRobot dataclass with configurable honesty_pct = 90 and humour_pct = 75. The sidebar includes a context selector with eight dialogue contexts:
| Context | Representative Response |
|---|---|
greeting |
All systems nominal. Though I notice you haven't asked about my humour setting yet. |
navigation |
Trajectory computed. I've also calculated the probability of everything going wrong. |
tidal |
Tidal forces are significant. I recommend we don't discuss my structural limitations. |
singularity |
Inside the singularity now. Physics is negotiable here. Logging everything. |
humour |
My humour setting is at 75%. Who else is going to lighten the mood falling into a black hole? |
honesty |
Honesty at 90%. Full disclosure: that's exactly how much I've told you. |
plan_a |
Plan A requires Murphy's equation. Current: 71.4%. Professor Brand was less forthcoming. |
default |
That is an interesting perspective. Also: you haven't slept in 18 hours. |
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Devanik21/INTERSTELLAR.git
cd INTERSTELLAR
# 2. Install dependencies
pip install streamlit numpy pandas matplotlib scipy plotly
# 3. Optional — place a background image
cp your-interstellar-wallpaper.png bg.png
# 4. Launch
streamlit run ENDURANCE.py
# 5. Custom port
streamlit run ENDURANCE.py --server.port 8501All nine files must reside in the same directory. The platform degrades gracefully if any backend is missing — the sidebar marks it offline and the page renders an error card with the import traceback.
streamlit ≥ 1.30
numpy ≥ 1.24
pandas ≥ 2.0
matplotlib ≥ 3.7
scipy ≥ 1.11
plotly ≥ 5.18
No additional dependencies. All heavy computation uses NumPy/SciPy; all visualisation uses Matplotlib (dark-themed, injected globally) and Plotly.
| File | Role | Lines | Key Classes / Functions |
|---|---|---|---|
ENDURANCE.py |
Frontend · Mission Control | 2,579 | render_overview, render_sidebar, render_boot_sequence, safe_render, KerrBlackHole (via import) |
gravity_engine.py |
Kerr BH · GW · Tidal | 3,036 | KerrBlackHole, AccretionDisk, GravitationalWaveEngine, TidalForceCalculator |
relativity_calculator.py |
SR / GR Engine | 2,801 | SpecialRelativity, GeneralRelativity, MissionTimeline, TwinParadox |
planet_analyzer.py |
Habitability · ESI | 2,706 | Planet, AtmosphericComposition, HabitabilityAnalyser, make_miller, make_mann, make_edmunds |
wormhole_navigator.py |
Morris-Thorne | 2,088 | WormholeGeometry, ExoticMatterPhysics, WormholeTraversalCalculator, OrbitalMechanics |
tesseract_decoder.py |
4D · Braneworld · Signals | 2,176 | TesseractGeometry, GravitySignalEncoder, GravitySignalDecoder, BulkGravityEngine |
crew_telemetry.py |
Crew · TARS · Ship | 2,179 | CrewMember, AIRobot, ShipModule, build_tars, build_case, build_crew_registry |
mission_reporter.py |
Lazarus · Plan A/B | 1,808 | LazarusProbe, PlanAStatus, PlanBStatus, EmbryoBank, BlightModel |
quantum_singularity.py |
LQG · BKL · Page curve | 2,200 | PlanckFoamEngine, LQGEngine, BKLEngine, PageCurveEngine, UnruhVacuumEngine, SYKEngine, HolographyEngine |
The mathematical foundations of this platform draw from the following primary literature:
- Boyer, R. H. & Lindquist, R. W. (1967). Maximal analytic extension of the Kerr metric. J. Math. Phys., 8(2), 265–281.
- Kerr, R. P. (1963). Gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics. Phys. Rev. Lett., 11, 237.
- Morris, M. S. & Thorne, K. S. (1988). Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel. Am. J. Phys., 56(5), 395–412.
- Thorne, K. S. (1994). Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. W. W. Norton.
- Penrose, R. (1969). Gravitational collapse: The role of general relativity. Riv. Nuovo Cimento, 1, 252.
- Hawking, S. W. (1975). Particle creation by black holes. Commun. Math. Phys., 43, 199–220.
- Bekenstein, J. D. (1973). Black holes and entropy. Phys. Rev. D, 7(8), 2333.
- Novikov, I. D. & Thorne, K. S. (1973). Astrophysics of black holes. In Black Holes (DeWitt & DeWitt, eds.).
- Belinskii, V. A., Khalatnikov, I. M. & Lifshitz, E. M. (1970). Oscillatory approach to a singular point. Adv. Phys., 19(80), 525–573.
- Ashtekar, A. & Lewandowski, J. (2004). Background independent quantum gravity. Class. Quantum Grav., 21(15), R53.
- Rovelli, C. & Smolin, L. (1995). Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity. Nucl. Phys. B, 442(3), 593–619.
- Ryu, S. & Takayanagi, T. (2006). Holographic derivation of entanglement entropy. Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 181602.
- Maldacena, J. (1997). The large-N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity. Int. J. Theor. Phys., 38, 1113.
- Maldacena, J. & Susskind, L. (2013). Cool horizons for entangled black holes. Fortschr. Phys., 61(9), 781–811.
- Almheiri, A., Engelhardt, N., Marolf, D. & Maxfield, H. (2019). Entanglement wedge reconstruction. JHEP, 2019(12), 63.
- Maldacena, J., Shenker, S. H. & Stanford, D. (2016). A bound on chaos. JHEP, 2016(8), 106.
- Sachdev, S. & Ye, J. (1993). Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet. Phys. Rev. Lett., 70, 3339.
- Kitaev, A. (2015). A simple model of quantum holography. KITP Seminars, Feb–May 2015.
- Page, D. N. (1993). Information in black hole radiation. Phys. Rev. Lett., 71, 3743.
- Penington, G. (2020). Entanglement wedge reconstruction and the information paradox. JHEP, 2020(9), 2.
- Randall, L. & Sundrum, R. (1999). Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension. Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 3370.
- Arkani-Hamed, N., Dimopoulos, S. & Dvali, G. (1998). The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimetre. Phys. Lett. B, 429(3–4), 263–272.
- Schwinger, J. (1951). On gauge invariance and vacuum polarization. Phys. Rev., 82(5), 664.
- Unruh, W. G. (1976). Notes on black-hole evaporation. Phys. Rev. D, 14(4), 870.
- Castelvecchi, D. & Witze, A. (2016). Einstein's gravitational waves found at last. Nature News, 11 Feb 2016.
- Seager, S. et al. (2013). Biosignature gases in H₂-dominated atmospheres. Astrophys. J., 777(2), 95.
- Hart, M. H. (1979). Habitable zones about main sequence stars. Icarus, 37(1), 351–357.
- Nolan, C. (Director) (2014). Interstellar [Film]. Syncopy / Warner Bros. (Narrative inspiration only)
Devanik is a final-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at the National Institute of Technology Agartala (graduating 2026), Samsung ISWDP Fellow (IISc, 98.58th percentile), and the author of a peer-reviewed astrophysics publication (arXiv:2412.20091, NAOJ). His GitHub profile (Devanik21) hosts 190+ repositories spanning original AI architectures, reinforcement learning systems, signal processing engines, and computational physics platforms.
INTERSTELLAR is one entry in a body of work that treats scientific computing as an act of civilisational ambition — each project a small step toward the long-horizon goal of understanding and ultimately transcending the physical limits that bind humanity to a single, fragile world.
"We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible." — Cooper
This project is released under the MIT License. You are welcome to use, modify, and redistribute the code for any purpose, with attribution. The scientific content implements equations from the public domain of physics literature; the cinematic narrative is a tribute to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) and no claim is made over that intellectual property.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
INTERSTELLAR · Gargantua Science Platform · v3.0.0
Author: Devanik · github.com/Devanik21
NIT Agartala · Samsung ISWDP Fellow · May 2026
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Author: Devanik May 2026