Quick, how might the alien spacecraft work?

Stephen Wolfram:

When I watch science fiction movies I have to say I quite often cringe, thinking, “someone’s spent $100 million on this movie — and yet they’ve made some gratuitous science mistake that could have been fixed in an instant if they’d just asked the right person.” So I decided that even though it was a very busy time for me, I should get involved in what’s now called Arrival and personally try to give it the best science I could.

An fun story about how Wolfram got involved in the movie and his efforts to make it as “accurate” as possible.