This isn’t an Earth-shattering thread but it might be an interesting deviation from the world around us.
In the movie K-PAX Kevin Spacey plays a space traveler “Prot” who comes to Earth only to be thought insane. The movie’s website has his journal which depicts all manner of formulae which is surreptitiously mixed with Praxian lexical.
My Question: Is this just movie gibberish or is there actually scientific formulas throughout this book. And if so, what do they all mean?
Some possible clues to deciphering the Praxian parts can be found throughout the journal with translations of such things as cashews, bluebird, banana and several other things.
By the way, the movie looks great, the website is fun to explore and the journal itself is an interesting read.
Stranger still, I understand that there is actually a planet K-PAX. Is this true?
The way I interperet the movie previews, it seems there’s no clear answer as to whether or not Prot is actually from K-Pax. I won’t mention the book to avoid spoilers. But I can tell you that the book was intentionally vague about all the scientific stuff. Prot doesn’t think it would be right to go into detail about scientific things we haven’t discovered yet. So as far as stuff that sounds like gibberish because we haven’t created it yet, I don’t think there is very much of it.
As far as the current science-speak goes, I think it’s probably mostly accurate. Without spoiling anything, the book does show that Prot does know what he’s talking about. Unfortunately, I don’t know what he’s talking about, so I can’t be of any more help than that…
Some of it is recognizable as high-school physics. Seems obsessed with Newton’s solution of the “Two-body Problem” – How to predict the motion of two masses (in a hypothetical situation in which there are no other influences.)
I just glanced at it, though. Didn’t scrutinize the “alien” parts – though one or two of the glyphs looked as though they may have been styled on egyptian heiroglyphics.