Our valued reader Clark Cully, a recent alumnus of the Michican CDF group, seems to keep his physics radar on high alert even when most of us are zoning out in a dark theater, letting Hollywood think for us. Last September he noticed that a fictional time machine in the film Deja Vu bore a more-than-coincidental resemblance to the CDF detector at Fermilab. Symmetry took the tip and covered the story.
This year, Clark spotted another instance where Hollywood used real science to create science fiction. In the movie Eagle Eye, a cutting edge supercomputer looks more than a little like the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan.
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Clark isn't the first to spot the connection--you can find mention of it here (but be warned of plot spoilers!). You can read more about the Super-K and the hard work it takes to maintain it in this symmetry breaking post.
