Watching movies or shows requires a certain amount of suspension of belief especially if it is a Sci-Fi or Fantasy movie. Most of the time this is fairly easy to do and makes for a fun watch or read. However, there are instances where no matter how much you try to suspend your belief it just doesn’t make sense and you are unable to watch the movie or show. Omni Loop is one such movie for me.
The movie sounded quite interesting as it is about time travel and I was looking forward to it, but once I started watching the movie within the first 5 mins I had to stop it as I couldn’t take it anymore. So, what happened in the first 5 mins that so annoyed me you might ask? The main character in the movie is a quantum physicist who is dying. The movie starts off with a doctor telling a lady that the the main character is dying because and I quote: she has a black hole growing in her chest. When I heard it I thought I must have been mistaken, because if there is a blackhole anywhere near a person they would be sucked inside it in micro-seconds.
A Black hole is a cosmic body of extremely intense gravity from which nothing, not even light, can escape. This means that they suck in any matter around them and incidentally that is how we can see them because of their enormous gravitational fields on nearby matter. We also have what are called mini-Black holes each with a mass that is only equal to or less than an asteroid. When the Large Hadron Collider went online folks were worried that it could create large numbers of mini black holes each of which could cause significant damage to earth before they dissipated.
If a black hole somehow managed to get lodged in someone’s chest (even a mini one), the gravitation forces would pull them apart and the weight would be so much that they wouldn’t be able to move even if they did manage to survive this somehow. The worst part was that this wasn’t shown as something that was unusual or rare. The doctor treated it the same way that they would have a tumor growing inside a person. If they had made it sound like a mystery that current science couldn’t explain maybe I would have continued to watch the movie but with the plot the way it was I just couldn’t continue to watch it.
– Suramya