A Scientific Perspective on Doctor Strange

When making movies, the creative team consults with field professionals to ensure the film is as accurate as possible. These professionals range from experts of medicine to anthropologists and often contribute immensely to a films direction. For Doctor Strange,  the Marvel team turned to Dr. Alan Frank, a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester. In an interview with Yahoo, Professor Frank reveals that the basic idea that creates the foundation for Doctor Strange is in fact a sound theory according to his analysis:

“But what Marvel did that was great was, they just brought up that idea — that you may have a universe of infinite spatial dimensions, and each of the different subsets of those spatial dimensions could be a separate universe. We live in a three-dimensional reality, and if our three-dimensional reality is embedded in a 500-dimensional space, then our three-dimensional reality and some other three-dimensional reality will coexist in that 500-dimensional space, but we would never know about the other one. That is just a cool idea! And to use that idea for your fictional superhero narrative is just totally awesome.”

Professor Frank believes that Doctor Strange chose the correct multiverse theory to use in the film. While the film strays from logic when Stephen Strange journeys into another dimension, Professor Frank praised how they handled it:

“So what’s good about Doctor Strange is that it draws from the way scientists think about reality and think about space and dimensions, and then it builds upon it. It doesn’t have to be scientifically accurate; it just needs to draw from the spirit of what scientists think about.“

Doctor Strange will be available through Digital HD on February 14th and Blu-ray/DVD in stores on February 28th.

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