The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But how much of the story holds up when measured against what physicists actually know about neutrinos,

Ryan Gosling is irresistible in Project Hail Mary.

Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher who we first see waking up alone on a spaceship, with absolutely no memory of how he ended up light-years from home.