Timeline for How could the human race be saved in Interstellar?
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | Ryan | Plan B could not have happened without the wormhole, but the wormhole causes plan A to succeed, so Plan B could never be the solution since it can never happen. Humans had to have survived without the wormhole somehow in order to evolve and create the first wormhole and tesseract, starting the loop. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 10:57 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | "Nolan owes us all an explanation." - No, he doesn't, the movie provides a perfectly consistent explanation, namely that the past is unchangable and there is only one single unchangable timeline that always looked the same. The movie basically adheres to the Novikov self-consistency principle, which makes any kind of paradox unnecessary. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 10:55 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | The did not change the past, the movie makes this pretty clear. They only changed the future. All that Cooper changes are things that happened after his departure anyway and are thus not in his or the Endurance mission's specific past. There can be sent a message to the past (which is what Cooper did), this however doesn't automatically mean that the past can also be changed. | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Edward Scissorhands | Wait, you're right about one thing. How did Cooper get the message from his future self if he wasn't really going there in the first place? He only went there because Cooper future sent him the coordinates. If he didn't get the coordinates, he wouldn't go to NASA. If he didn't go to NASA, he wouldn't be able to go and send himself the coordinates. Nolan owes us all an explanation. Or maybe there isn't one. | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | Edward Scissorhands | When you change the past, you either change the events that happen in the future as well (see looper, back in the future, time cop), or an alternate reality is created. | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Edward Scissorhands | Also, if they were depicting unchangability of the past, then the whole thing would have been pointless anyway. They did change the past. They did it when Cooper seccesfully sent the message across to save the human race. They did save the human race. It was the point of the whole movie. That's why they built the tessaract in the first place. So yes, the past can be changed in the movie, through accessing different dimensions of time, like what they showed Cooper in the tessaract. | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Edward Scissorhands | In the original past, Cooper was working for NASA, just like what happened in the new past. "They" didn't create the worm hole. They just put the tessaract in the black hole. Thus, Cooper working for nasa in the original timeline. The only difference is that in the first past, there was no tesseract in the black hole and when Cooper went in, he died, and the rest of the human race afterwards except for Brand and plan B. With this knowledge, the future humans put the tesseract in the black hole because they knew from the past (original timeline) that Cooper was going to go into the black hole. | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 10:18 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | Yet, this seems to contradict the single unchangable timeline and the unchangability of the past depicted in the movie. If Cooper did not land in the tesseract in the "original" timeline, why would he end up at NASA at all in the first place? And why would his doings inside the tesseract on the "second try" recreate the exact chain of events of his "original past", including the messaging of the quantum data that supposedly not happened in the "original past"? | |
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 23:50 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 23:50 | history | answered | Edward Scissorhands | CC BY-SA 3.0 |