Christopher Nolan's next: 'Interstellar'

[jiveturkey]

I was blown away by it.

[Nirvana58]

Saw the movie last weekend. Thought it was a decent flick but I couldn't get past this one flaw. Been awhile since I have read up on physics and the universe. So maybe one of you smart people could help explain if I am wrong here.

Spoiler!

Basically Coop is falling into the Black Hole. Earlier in the movie they made a big deal about time slowing the closer you get to a black hole when they visited the first planet. However, isn't it widely accepted that at the event horizon time is moving so slow that it basically stops. So for the amount of time that would of passed for him to cross over and get the data he needed to his daughter. Everyone he knew would of been dead and gone long long ago. Just bugged me since they made such a big deal about them fighting against time.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by Nirvana58

Saw the movie last weekend. Thought it was a decent flick but I couldn't get past this one flaw. Been awhile since I have read up on physics and the universe. So maybe one of you smart people could help explain if I am wrong here.

Spoiler!

Basically Coop is falling into the Black Hole. Earlier in the movie they made a big deal about time slowing the closer you get to a black hole when they visited the first planet. However, isn't it widely accepted that at the event horizon time is moving so slow that it basically stops. So for the amount of time that would of passed for him to cross over and get the data he needed to his daughter. Everyone he knew would of been dead and gone long long ago. Just bugged me since they made such a big deal about them fighting against time.

Spoiler!

That could still have happened. It did not matter at that point. Once he passed through the singularity (so beyond the horizon) he fell out of space and time, and into the tesseract/5th dimension. There time is physical. That is how he can communicate with his daughter in the past. It is a place he can go to or a point in time that he can move to inside the tesseract by gliding around. So you are still correct in that time could have stopped for him, and in actuality it did stop for him, as he transcended beyond the arrow of time.

[Nirvana58]

Originally Posted by bowener

Spoiler!

That could still have happened. It did not matter at that point. Once he passed through the singularity (so beyond the horizon) he fell out of space and time, and into the tesseract/5th dimension. There time is physical. That is how he can communicate with his daughter in the past. It is a place he can go to or a point in time that he can move to inside the tesseract by gliding around. So you are still correct in that time could have stopped for him, and in actuality it did stop for him, as he transcended beyond the arrow of time.

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So basically when he was released from the tesseract they sent him back in time? Because the time it would take Coop to actually cross the horizon everyone would have already died billions of years ago. Interesting twist to think about. I guess the alien/human beings that built the tesseract must of really liked Coop. Since they sent him back in time and across the galaxy to see his daughter before she died. Then gave him enough time and resources to go be with Anne Hathaway

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Nirvana58

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So basically when he was released from the tesseract they sent him back in time? Because the time it would take Coop to actually cross the horizon everyone would have already died billions of years ago. Interesting twist to think about. I guess the alien/human beings that built the tesseract must of really liked Coop. Since they sent him back in time and across the galaxy to see his daughter before she died. Then gave him enough time and resources to go be with Anne Hathaway

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It wasn't time travel, it was time dilation that allowed Cooper to see the 100~ year old Murph. Same effect as the dilation on Miller's planet, just to a much more intense degree.

[Demonpenz]

Armagagedan reboot.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Armagagedan reboot.

I heard Billy Butler's voice when I read that.

[Direckshun]

Spoiler!

Do we have any great theories as to how the humans were able to retrieve McCaughnahey from the black hole? My theory is that once within the black hole, he was theoretically able to transcend time and travel backwards, and that's how he got out. But I have no explanation that doesn't sound stupid.

Also, the Wikipedia entry said that the advanced race that placed the wormhole next to Saturn were humans. But it wasn't made clear to me that they were human. Am I crazy?

My understanding is that they were an advanced race who couldn't communicate with us, so they recruited humans to communicate to other humans for them. It's not remotely clear that the wormhole placement and the ability to put McCaughnahey in a tesseract within the black hole was done by humans.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Spoiler!

Do we have any great theories as to how the humans were able to retrieve McCaughnahey from the black hole? My theory is that once within the black hole, he was theoretically able to transcend time and travel backwards, and that's how he got out. But I have no explanation that doesn't sound stupid.

Also, the Wikipedia entry said that the advanced race that placed the wormhole next to Saturn were humans. But it wasn't made clear to me that they were human. Am I crazy?

My understanding is that they were an advanced race who couldn't communicate with us, so they recruited humans to communicate to other humans for them. It's not remotely clear that the wormhole placement and the ability to put McCaughnahey in a tesseract within the black hole was done by humans.

Spoiler!

Future humans are able to transcend/travel into the 5th dimension based on the fact that Coop went into a black hole. It is circular. They chose him because he had to and was always going to be chosen. Without him going into the wormhole and reaching the blackhole on the other side, future humans would never be able to open the wormhole without the data he was able to relay back to them (how to control gravity, which in M theory/this film is possibly the only thing that extends across all dimensions).

It isn't not clear that it was humans. They allude to it a few times, and I believe they may say it outright toward the middle of the 3rd act. So basically not Aliens.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by bowener

Spoiler!

Future humans are able to transcend/travel into the 5th dimension based on the fact that Coop went into a black hole. It is circular. They chose him because he had to and was always going to be chosen. Without him going into the wormhole and reaching the blackhole on the other side, future humans would never be able to open the wormhole without the data he was able to relay back to them (how to control gravity, which in M theory/this film is possibly the only thing that extends across all dimensions).

It isn't not clear that it was humans. They allude to it a few times, and I believe they may say it outright toward the middle of the 3rd act. So basically not Aliens.

[ragedogg69]

Spoiler!

I like to wonder something: These human beings that advanced to the 5th dimension, are they from earth or are they the ones Anne Hathaway started on the new planet with Plan B?

[jiveturkey]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

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I like to wonder something: These human beings that advanced to the 5th dimension, are they from earth or are they the ones Anne Hathaway started on the new planet with Plan B?

Interesting theory.

[Hammock Parties]

Mind blowing.

Utterly ****ing mind blowing.

Loved every frame.

The soundtrack, my god.

Nolan better direct a Star Wars movie.

[DanBecky]

Originally Posted by Count Alex's Wins

Mind blowing.

Utterly ****ing mind blowing.

Loved every frame.

The soundtrack, my god.

Nolan better direct a Star Wars movie.

Seen it today. What Clay said. Still can't wrap my mind around it all.

[Hammock Parties]

The only thing was...the robot wasn't funny. At all.

The robot was very cool, though. They should have played that up over the humor.

Nolan is a master. I had a full bladder and was in mild pain for the last hour and ****ing held it, brah. I don't want to miss 10 seconds of any of his movies. They suck you in.