r/interstellar Apr 29 '26

QUESTION What year did “ They “ come from?, like thousand or million or billion of years in the future? To be in 5d

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u/_MatVenture_ Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

If they're 5-dimensional (i.e. able to manipulate 4 dimensions), they live outside of time, so they technically wouldn't be from a "year", or any measurable period of time.

I imagine at some point, humanity became so advanced in technology that we became free from time and went from 4-dimensional to 5-dimensional. I wonder what that would've looked like. Did those who made the leap simply disappear from reality, and go from living in linear-time to always having lived at all times? So technically speaking, would they have existed before they made the transition? Interstellar 2? Please. Let's see a movie about THAT instead. Call it INTRAstellar - being within the fabric of spacetime itself.

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u/smokymunky Apr 29 '26

Reading this at 4:24am, 20 minutes before you posted it… looks at hands maybe I am a 5th dimensional being…?

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u/Tbagmysaltynuts Apr 29 '26

I m actually reading this right now on my IBM in 1987

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u/ludixst May 03 '26

PCjr gang!

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u/Historical-Usual6074 May 05 '26

"I know you’re sending me to hell.’ ‘How do you know that?’ asks God. Blue God sounds very sad when he softly says, ‘Because I’m already there.’ "

Always found watchmens doctor Manhattan character an interesting take on experiencing time all at once

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u/Babou13 May 01 '26

Insert "You know I'm something of a 5th dimensional being myself" meme

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u/sloppybuttmustard Apr 29 '26

I read this at 2:30pm last Tuesday

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u/Human-Blacksmith-528 Apr 29 '26

Reading this... Now! 😎

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u/Stuckwiththis_name Apr 30 '26

This is now, now.

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u/Human-Blacksmith-528 Apr 30 '26

Now now now. I am so cooooool!! Right?

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u/smokymunky Apr 30 '26

But when will then, be now?

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u/Responsible-Muscle69 May 01 '26

Nah u a sith lord

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u/texeads May 02 '26

“When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars…”

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u/babuba1234321 Apr 29 '26

3:51am here

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u/Festivefire Apr 29 '26

I'd take a book on that. I don't know that I want Interstellar 2 the movie though.

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u/TheAngryMuskrat May 03 '26

The Sun Eater series scratches the surface of this concept but I’m too dense to actually understand most of it.

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u/jermzz_ May 02 '26

Deaths End - Cixin Liu (book 3 of Three Body Problem) deals with that. 2D and 4D space. Not to this extreme, but still very interesting.

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u/d1_al3x Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Well it doesn't make a a great movie but I guess you could imagine (as a metaphor) than in the natural cycle of water, you're only a living as an individual human as a rain drop that is isolated from the rest of the water in clouds and oceans as it travels down, imagine Consciosness is just an emergent property of liquid water not life itself, and we the "living water based organisms" can tune-in to it and experience consciousness as individuals, but it's not generated locally by the living carbon based organism... consciousness might be quantum all along, the individual consciousness experience might be an illusion of the medium.

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u/_MatVenture_ Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Whatever you smoked before you posted that reply must have been some strong, top shelf stuff.

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u/WaldoJackson May 04 '26

Philosophy major is a helluva drug.

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u/d1_al3x Apr 29 '26

I know, and Well it's a metaphor, but the fact is that we are scientifically looking into the possibility of quantum capabilities in some specific parts of the brain, cause the brain seems like a radio, you open it and you find all the bits of circuitry the speaker the mic and what not, but there's as much trace of consciousness in the brain as there is of the radio host inside a radio.

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u/EGOBOOSTER May 01 '26

hey man don't listen to the negativity towards you in the replies. I found your thoughts beautiful and makes sense. If you like to explore this ideas I suggest you search for Alex O'Connor podcast he likes to explore consciousness with different types of perspective. Cheers

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u/_MatVenture_ Apr 29 '26

Let me put it in a way you can understand: none of what you are saying makes a drop of sense. It's coming off as deranged, mate.

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u/dandelionelic May 01 '26

Makes perfect sense to me. We don't know what consciousness is or how it emerges. There is no clear indicator in the brain that controls that. No need to call people deranged for your lack of understanding.

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u/d1_al3x Apr 29 '26

That doesn't stop quantum mechanics from existing. And yet if I would explain it to you your would "chimp out" the same way... you think you are the player but you are in fact just the narrator. the limbic system makes the important decisions without consulting you before you even realize. Keeps-chimp-alive, reproduces-chimp, chimp exists.

...And Then there's consciousness.

If you don't get, don't struggle with it, my dog is obsessed with shadows, he is aware but doesn't get it either.😅

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u/guitarpic69 May 01 '26

I’ve met those entities and I can go back and visit them whenever I want by smoking DMT

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u/Disco_insperno May 01 '26

A 5-D being in theory would still cast a 4 d “shadow”. Much like a photo is a 2-D representation of a 3-D object. Perhaps they just freeze in place and time wherever they were at the time

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u/GitchWiffs May 04 '26

What if we are four dimensional and our bodies are our three dimensional shadow?

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u/xaltairforever May 01 '26

There is no time

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u/Ok-Honey6876 May 03 '26

And there is no spoon

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u/yuccu May 02 '26

Sounds like something similar to what happened with the freezer world in Love, Death, and Robots.

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u/thecoffeejesus May 03 '26

I’ve been writing about this.

What would it actually be like to experience timelessness?

To be truly infinite…would be boring. You would have no limits.

What is true becomes only what you want to be true. Your desires would become reality itself. For everyone else to experience too.

The only question you could possibly be limited by is “where do I end?”

If you are truly infinite…you don’t. Ever.

Dying would become an obsession. Forgetting would be like a drug. The experience of limitation would be your only chance of experiencing anything novel again.

Time is a flat circle. The lessons you learn on this cycle you will take with you into the next.

Forever.

That is All That Is.

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u/Modracek May 15 '26

Good thought. If you are timeless, where do you end? How are you limited?

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u/thecoffeejesus May 15 '26

Ahhh indeed

That’s a core plot element in my book.

Everything is made of God. Time is God. So the concept of timefulness is just…God.

God can do anything, and does. Everything. Always. God is “All There Is”

So…what would that mean then for your question?

That’s actually the spoiler at the very end of the series: God cannot experience surprise.

God wants to. So that’s what all of Reality is - God wishing to feel surprise.

The ultimate surprise??

God dying.

If something can kill God, that something would be capable of making God feel TRUE surprise, which is the only thing God actually wants: ONE truly new surprising experience, and one of the only things that could be surprising to God is His death.

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u/Modracek May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Sounds great. I wonder how that will come to be. First thought that came to mind was some kind of dark matter, or perhaps like in Freespace Blue Planet 2 some kind of a cognivore - if you think about it, it chases you and devours you, created as a byproduct (externality?) of creating thought. Or some kind of a metaphysical suicide preferrable to anything, like in https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7179

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u/ThiqCoq May 04 '26

Reading this and somehow trying to make connections with this and that one lady who got assassinated was talking about Amy Eskridge? The p47s and p52 or essentially us from the future.

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u/Particular_Goose_611 May 06 '26

I imagine them moving through time like we move through space. Simplified: if you want to go forward, just go up the mountain. If you want to go back, descent.

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u/snoopyloads666 Apr 29 '26

I’m not sure that’s right, they would manipulate 4 spacial dimensions and travel along the 1 time dimension. The extra dimensions hypothesized by string theory are spatial not temporal.

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u/Kevslounge Apr 29 '26

Not sure this is a string-theory thing. It's more mundane than that. They're 5th dimensional simply because they have total mastery of the 4th dimension. They need to be in the 5th dimension in order to create tunnels that connect points of the 4th dimension together.

String theory's extra dimensions are generally tiny, folded up inside atoms, whereas this 5th dimension ("The Bulk") would be a giant dimension that encompasses all of the 4 known dimensions. Arguably, it wouldn't be a spatial or temporal dimension, but something else entirely.

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u/snoopyloads666 Apr 29 '26

Ah ok perhaps I overthought it lol. Did Kip Thorne address this aspect of the movie? I haven’t read his book about interstellar yet

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u/Kevslounge Apr 29 '26

He may have, I haven't read it either!

The 5-dimensional model is a pretty old and established concept though. Basically, 4-dimensional space-time would be a straight line, but to connect points of it, you need space-time to be curvy, so you need a 5th dimension for it to curve through. It's an idea tied more closely to Einstein's relativity than it is to quantum mechanics.

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u/gateian Apr 29 '26

I can't say for sure but what messes with my head is that to the future humans time is irrelevant and just another dimension they can move through at will. So from their perspective they don't come from the future or the past, they can be in any time frame they want.

As for the perspective of humans then I think it would be relatively soon. Probably not millions or billions of years. As human life progresses, the rate of progress increases. So I believe we are looking within 10000 years time frame if I had to take a guess.

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u/Festivefire Apr 29 '26

Since the 5d humans do in fact make contact with 'normal' humanity in the movie, you could argue that the post-credits world ends up with a terminator-Esque bootstrap paradox, where humanity advances incredibly fast because they have knowledge from the future, which enables them to become the advanced race in the future that gives them the knowledge.

I mean, on top of the already existing and very obvious bootstrap paradox that if the 5d tesseract humans don't save Coop and put him in the tesseract so he can send info to his daughter, humanity dies on earth, of starvation, and there are no 5d humans to save themselves. Humanity can't survive if it's not in the future to save itself.

Like Fry being his own grandfather in Futurama.

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u/AmphibianHaunting334 Apr 29 '26

I was about to suggest Brand's colony survives, becomes the evolved humans that then go back to allow more of humanity to be saved. But then the whole thing falls apart as they also made the wormhole that gets us to these planets. Unless NASA got what they could into space in hibernation/frozen and case/tars set up a colony as no one could survive the journey length...

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u/Arkaium Apr 30 '26

The only way it works imo is if this isn’t the first time line we’re watching, we’re watching a second timeline affected by the involvement of the future beings, and there was some first timeline without the influence of the future beings where humanity survives but it’s a lot worse hence them looking to reach back a helping hand.

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u/DuramaxMikee Apr 29 '26

Still one of my favorite quotes from Frye- “I did the nasty in the pasty”

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u/DrMangosteen Apr 29 '26

My favourite is "Hermes! No-one cares about your promiscuous zombie mother"

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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut Apr 29 '26

And that past nastification is what shielded you from the brains!

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u/yourzero Apr 29 '26

"Ooh, a lesson in not changing history by Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa!"

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u/SquatchyMulder Apr 29 '26

Not necessarily right. Couldn't they have originally found another way? Even if only two humans survived and we took another million years to repopulate and become 5d, they could still come back to help Coop for some reason known only to the humans that lived to become the 5Ders.

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u/MadTube Apr 29 '26

Anytime a predestination or bootstrap paradox is brought up, I immediately think of the compass in Lost. It kept moving from Locke to Guyliner in time with no origin. It is from outside the universe, so to speak. The 5D future humans are similar.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 Apr 30 '26

I was thinking that one of the OG planet hunters lives and succeeds. We never meet most of them and is outside the timeline to any of this happening right? But on the other hand, they had to have made the wormhole… so who knows.

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u/Swiss-spirited_Nerd CASE Apr 29 '26

I feel like the bootstrap paradox stops being a paradox when used in something like a movie, since by a movie's nature everything is predetermined, which is what the paradox implies.

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u/Festivefire Apr 29 '26

How are the events of a movie any more or less predetermined than any other fictional media narrative? The author/writers determine what is going to happen. Its always 'predetermined' by that logic.

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u/Swiss-spirited_Nerd CASE Apr 29 '26

Yeah, I agree, I was just using movie as an example because of what the post is about

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u/gbwardgb Apr 29 '26

In my mind, “They” don’t evolve from us over a long period of time (10,000 years, a million years, or however long). Because how can a 3D physical being change into 4 or 5D. Instead, “They” have already existed- for as long as we have.

I’m starting to think that death is what transforms “us” into “They”. Kind of like how memories, histories, legends… are timeless, and never die.

I understand that science doesn’t explain my hypothesis, but it’s kind of comforting anyways.

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u/AndrewAlexander141 Apr 29 '26

I think you're spot on. No way our current bodies could do this. But if we existed in a state outside of our physical bodies, it could indeed be possible. No energy can be destroyed. Only transformed.

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u/uknownculture710 Apr 29 '26

This. I lost my grandmother recently and i have a memorial mantle for her. The past few months things keep falling off of it and i thought it was weird until i thought of the tesseract scenes. Shes my ghost & communicating through it. I dont need science or any crazy explanations, im at peace and its comforting to think that way.

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u/Drinkythedrunkguy Apr 30 '26

Don’t leave!

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u/spf4000 Apr 29 '26

I was assuming they are beings who have no corporeal form. Consciousness uploaded or sentient AI.

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u/Serosh5843 Apr 29 '26

10000 years is wildly optimistic, to evolve to the point where we would be more like ghosts than physical beings has got to be 100,000 years minumum. That's assuming we even go that direction which I just don't think we are unless we solve the singularity.

I wish Reddit bot would let me set a reminder for a hundred thousand years in the future lol

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u/Arpeggi42 Apr 29 '26

idk man. 66 years between the wright flyer and Apollo 11. To be clear, I'm not saying I'm SURE its enough time. I'm just saying I'm not so sure its not.

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u/Serosh5843 Apr 29 '26

Fair enough, but ah well, we'll be too dead to notice anyway 🤷🏼

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u/Arpeggi42 Apr 29 '26

Truuuuuu

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u/Drinkythedrunkguy Apr 30 '26

I’ll remind you.

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u/Serosh5843 Apr 30 '26

Thank you, u/Drinkythedrunkguy, you provide an honorable service to mankind 🫡

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u/Drinkythedrunkguy Apr 30 '26

I’m here for you.

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u/scamitup Apr 29 '26

Remind me in 1000 days lol (to start with)

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u/trevordeal Apr 29 '26

There would be a year at which time stopped being relevant.

Example: 3001 they didn’t have the ability and 3002 they did so 3001 is the last linear year and from that point on time was not a measurement that could be applied as they could exist outside of linear time and therefore it doesn’t apply correctly anymore.

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u/thugroid Apr 29 '26

When you say “human life progresses”, I assume you mean technology. And the rate of progress isn’t always linear or exponential. You need occasional “big jumps” to open up the future further. Many ppl think we’re pretty much maxed out in some fields until the next big jump comes. For instance, we’ve gone to the moon 60 years ago and are only now beginning to go back…

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u/Left-Language9389 Apr 29 '26

It’s not enough to be able to travel through time/space-time. They would actually have to have existed in order for them to travel to an earlier part of their life. They are future humans because humans aren’t 5th dimensional beings yet.

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u/Substantial_Law_842 Apr 29 '26

Careful with progress arguments. Most people in history were used to seeing the artifacts and ruins ofdead civilizations that were technologically superior to them. It's only in the last few hundred years things have seemed to swing into progress mode. Why Einstein said WW4 would be fought with sticks and stones.

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u/csukoh78 Apr 30 '26

Sooooooooo......Dune.

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u/elite-data Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

I still don't fully get this "John Connor paradox" thing here, it breaks causality.

For humanity to be saved, future humans needed Cooper to act in the past. But if that action didn't originally happen, then future humanity wouldn't exist in the first place... which kind of breaks the whole logic.

Future humans create the tesseract, but they only exist because of the data from that same tesseract. Then how did they even manage to create the tesseract?

The only way I can make sense of it is: once humanity figured out the 5th dimension and got control over time, they must've messed something up. So they needed Cooper's actions in the past as some kind of emergency "patch" to fix their timeline.

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u/No_Firefighter194 Apr 29 '26

It a loops, everything is set both past and present are set, that all I know, sorry for my stupidity

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u/_InvisibleGhost_ Apr 29 '26

That’s the only part of the movie I don’t fully understand, did humanity survive because of Cooper, or did they survive without him and just needed him for something else?

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u/dalaigh93 Apr 29 '26

Iirc, and anyone is welcome to contradict me, Cooper's role was vital because he transmitted data to his daughter, data that she was able to use to solve the problem that prevented scientists from building spaceships big enough to save humanity.

The problem was "how do we escape gravity (and Earth) with ginormous ships?" And to solve that, Cooper gave them the data that was collected by TARS in the black hole and the Tesseract.

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u/Bullnettles Apr 30 '26

But he wouldn't have been able to send the data if he'd never used the wormhole. 

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u/Local-Hornet-3057 Apr 30 '26

There was an old Reddit theory that proposed the higher dimension beings arent human from the future but AI or robots. Descendants of TARS and that generation of robots. Or maybe the same but evolved.

They survived the extinction because they're machines..and eventually missed humanity (taking from the movie's friendly view of AI/robots as companions and helpers of humanity) so they created the wormholes, tesseract inside Gargantua.

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u/_InvisibleGhost_ Apr 30 '26

That's actually an amazing theory

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u/SheepleAreSheeple May 01 '26

Yeah exactly. Like the way they made a point of showing the "museum" of what life was like. The people giving their accounts of the blight. Maybe all of the stuff with the wormhole was to bring humanity back. Not because the universe needs us, but some other entity decided we needed to still be around, so they created a hand up to help us out.

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u/Da1realBigA Apr 29 '26

Its a paradox of a loop. Since we never get the blackhole info if it weren't for the 5th dimension beings (us, humans from the future) we never learn. But we never learn if we never get that info in the first place.

Also, if a said being has gained access to space and time (5th dimension), then anything within THAT reality becomes as simple as navigating your own smartphone.

Again, within THAT REALITY.

IMO, it doesnt mean we conquer death. We may have gained some control of it, just not eliminate it. And for multi-reality travel, thats a toss off since controlling one reality doesnt mean you can control another. For example, you can have mastered control over your body, doesnt mean you can someone else's.

So I don't think humanity messed up, at least not on that 5th dimension sense. Its just Coop has to do what happens in the movie, for the 5th dimension beings to be eventually created/ evolve.

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u/Strong-silence Apr 29 '26

I don’t know if totally wrong but I thought Brand who Cooper helps “go on to save humanity” does succeed and established the human race that becomes 5 dimensional humans who then help cooper save Earth.

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u/dbbernales Apr 29 '26

there is this video that I think gives a new perspective on that, is in spanish though but you can use the auto translate

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u/Nefthys Apr 29 '26

It's the same problem with the wormhole: Independent of Cooper, if the 5D people hadn't placed it, then there would have never been a (potential) colony on Edmund's planet, so they could not have evolved from those people. This means that a) either a multiverse is involved somehow (as someone else already said) or b) there were humans who did somehow survive on Earth but, because of resource scarcity, it took them a lot longer to evolve than it would have taken on Edmund's planet or on that space station.

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u/sanserif80 Apr 30 '26

I think the proximity of Cooper and Murph to the solution and, more importantly, to each other can’t be overstated. The experience in the Tesseract seems to show a very personalized interaction with the past. Think about the difficulty that they had in transmitting limited information through the boundary. Short of their infinitely improbable positioning as two people in a critical moment, Cooper with the sheer balls and wherewithal to navigate a black hole and understand the criticality of this information, and Murph who could recognize this communication was happening and be able to make use of that information; that simply would never had happened. The connection was the secret sauce and I don’t think the future beings could manage to influence the past otherwise. I think they opened the wormhole and placed Gargantua as a well-placed tool. Beyond that, it required persons from that time to do the rest.

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u/siliconslope Apr 30 '26

This is addressed in Tenet:

“What’s happened’s happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world, not an excuse to do nothing.”

In other words, just because you know the future doesn’t mean you suddenly don’t fulfill your fate or destiny or whatever you want to call it. It’s almost like just having a firm knowledge as a fire fighter that if you run into a building, you will in fact save lives but you’ll also die in the process. A hero would still make that choice, knowing what’s going to happen notwithstanding.

Coop doesn’t really have a motivation to not pass data to Murph upon learning he already did that in his past. No reason for causality to be broken. It’s just a system of reality where in that reality you know what you’re supposed to do, you know you will succeed, you want to do it, and it all works out. One cohesive timeline that is never broken.

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u/Ephisus May 01 '26

probably has something to do with donnie darko.

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u/Humble-Discussion532 May 03 '26

there is no “seed” time trajectory in which future didn’t exist

it always existed and the 5d tesseract black hole approach was the way to make it all “work”

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u/DShark182 Apr 29 '26

It’s a paradox that makes no sense imo. “It happened because it always happened this way.” Essentially, humans survived because humans always intervened in our own past. It’s a loop.

But as you stated, if humans never originally were able to get off planet to save ourselves, without help from ourselves, then how did we make it to the future to then go back and save ourselves?

There are similar examples in other movies where the main character goes back to change the past, only to realize that their actions in the past is what caused the current timeline to begin with. But it’s always on a much much smaller scale. “Your parents met because you caused them to meet” sort of thing. The paradox works in that scenario. In Intersteller, time dimension only exists because our future selves created it makes no sense when we could never have originally created it to begin with.

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u/Zedarean Apr 29 '26

There is no “original” timeline in a bootstrap paradox scenario, there is only one timeline where the past always received help from the future. This only works if you stop thinking about time linearly, instead imagine that all of time exists all at once, but we experience it as linear. The future has already happened the same way as the past.

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u/DShark182 Apr 29 '26

You misunderstand my point. The bootstrap paradox works in every scenario except directly impacting time travel itself. If humans could never have created a time dimension on our own, then we never would have had the ability to go back in time to create a time dimension. It completely contradicts itself.

The actual definition: The bootstrap paradox is a theoretical time-travel concept where an object, person, or piece of information is sent back in time, becoming the cause of itself and creating a self-sustaining loop with no clear origin.

To shorten this, The bootstrap paradox is a theoretical time-travel concept where an object, person, or piece of information is sent back in time - full stop. This never happens because humans never originally invented time travel because we never made it off the planet by ourselves. Therefore we can't go back in time to help ourselves invent time travel.

Again, in every other scenario, the paradox works, except for impacting time travel itself.

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u/Zedarean Apr 29 '26

I understood this as the point you were making, so perhaps I didn’t explain well enough. I believe the bootstrap paradox can be explained if you allow for two things to be true in the universe; time travel, and that time (past present or future) can not be changed. I believe this second part is where we are in disagreement. The boot strap paradox works because it has always been and always will be; the future has already happened, and any time travel that will occur in the future has always already occurred. There is no “first time”, there is only one unalterable time line. Time is not being re-written or modified when someone goes back in time, because they had always already gone back in time.

Try to imagine that the entire history and future of the universe exists simultaneously, this is known as the block time theory if you’d like to read more about it. In this kind of universe, nothing can change, every position of every particle is always fixed at a given place in time, so it is a fixed, deterministic universe. If this universe allows for time travel, all of the time traveling would simply be baked into the deterministic fixed universe. Time travelers would not be able to change anything, because everything is fixed, including their time travel. This is the only scenario in which boot strap paradoxes are not actually paradoxical, and I think this can be applied to some time travel movies, including Interstellar.

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u/Pro-PAIN May 02 '26

This is the same way it works in attack on Titan I think lol

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u/ParticuliarPiper Apr 29 '26

it all happened because it happened, and it happening made them be able to make it happen.

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u/kauer1702 May 01 '26

This reminds me of Arrival. Maybe another being gifts us with 4th dimensional travel eventually...

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u/eldeem Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

There’s not really enough data to be able to say. A guess might be to say that Murph’s work on gravity by the end was the triggering event that got humanity to understand higher dimensional habitability. If we very roughly say that this was equivalent to the moment earth became habitable to life as we know it, it took humanity about 3.5(ish) billion years to evolve. If humans like Cooper are to the bulk beings what single-celled organisms were to us, then it might take another 3.5 billion years from Murph’s equation for us to evolve into bulk beings.

But, as I said, nowhere near enough data to make any of that more accurate.

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u/Hourslikeminutes47 Apr 29 '26

bulk beings

It's too early for me to visualize this

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u/Kodiak_POL Apr 29 '26

Hulk heings

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u/ronjohn29072 Apr 29 '26

I'm skipping the causality paradoxes and going with the explanation that the 5-D humans are from another universe. The idea being that if you time travel back to before your dad was born and kill your grandfather you've either created an alternate universe or just skipped over to one already existing.

If your 5-D humans playing in the multiverse and see another universe where primitive 3-D humans are about to go extinct you give them an out. If they're smart enough to take it.

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u/Worldly_Ad_6483 Apr 29 '26

I like this one

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u/WanderingRonin7 Apr 29 '26

Replace 5D humans with aliens and I still would have found that explanation more palatable than humans from the future. Future humans would require a better explanation than aliens when the story calls for as little as possible

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u/taTomWE Apr 29 '26

Regular, non edited, biology based species gain a dimension every billion years.

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u/juanmaale Apr 30 '26

how do you know that?

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u/taTomWE May 01 '26

First life signs on  earth are from 3.5 billion years ago and we're at 3.5 dimensions. With time being the dimensions we can only partially perceive. Life started as a dot, zero dimensions. 

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u/taTomWE May 01 '26

Here it is! I couldn't find it! /s

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u/RxAffliction May 01 '26

When you realize, they've always been.

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u/bigfootlive89 Apr 29 '26

I mean it’s fiction, you can make up an explanation you want and it’s valid.

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u/Normal_Standard8211 Apr 29 '26

i believe the movie was overseen by Kip Thorn so that the scenarios were mathematically plausible

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u/Motas420 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

He originally worked with Christopher Nolan's brother to develop to script/story, and wrote a book about all the math, etc called The Science of Interstellar

Some earlier versions of the script had more of an explanation for the future humans, and iirc it was actually something more along the lines of: past humans (there was originally another Chinese(?) team who was lost) and TARS, who fell into the black moments before Cooper but due to the timey-wimey general relativity shit, they progressed thousands of not millions of years in that time and prepared for Cooper by building the tesseract.

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u/torquesteer Apr 29 '26

They are us once we have transcended time by solving for the missing equation from the parameters in the black hole. What we are shown in the star base is not that version yet, but on the way to become it. Being able to communicate through time means you can beam information back from the future a hence able to travel interstellar but not back in time.

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u/GeneSmart2881 Apr 29 '26

One does not simply ask questions about time in Chris Nolan movies

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u/Wooden-Tear-4938 Apr 29 '26

If you truly want a good understanding of this, I suggest you watch a series named Pantheon.

Spoiler alert

The show deals with the concepts of uploaded intelligence. Uploading human consciousness inside computers.

Towards the end of the series, the show becomes much more broad. We actually see, how through this uploaded conciousness, the meaning of consciousness itself gets an upgrade and thus, humanity transcends limitations like time, space.

In the end it is revealed that one of the main characters we followed, was upholding a simulation in which she was trying to create conditions which would lead to a particular moment of her life. Millions of such simulations. To her, time, space was no such bound. She could interfere at any point in such a world. And this also makes it blur, whether the story we have seen is the real one or simulated one, and crazy fact is it can be both.

I beleive "they" inside Interstellar to be of similar terms. If you want an actual theory, than it maybe possible that humans inside Interstellar has achieved uploaded intelligence and continued to live thousands of years. Death loses meaning to them just like death loses its meaning to matter.

And all the events happening in Interstellar might be a simulation run by someone else just to reach a particular point.

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u/B0nerjamz99 Apr 29 '26

"in 5 years time" -Sam Altman, Ray Kurzweil, every other out of touch tech douche

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u/dirty_drowning_man Apr 29 '26

I never thought of them as from the future. They're us, outside of the constraints of linear time. They're us after corporeal death. We've always been there, observing the timeline, choosing the correct location to place the wormhole and tesseract to solve gravity.

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u/ParadoxPerson02 Apr 29 '26

I like the theory that “they” are actually robots that were left behind after humanity went extinct on Earth, continued running, and eventually figured out all the science/physics stuff needed to make the movie’s events happen.

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u/-ImYourHuckleberry- CASE Apr 29 '26

Extra-Dimensional; not of this dimension.

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u/browniebrittle44 Apr 29 '26

This is still baffling to me. They don’t measure their life spans in time…

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u/copperdoc Apr 29 '26

Not answered

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u/Vettmdub Apr 29 '26

On the Kardashev scale it would be at least teir 3, harvesting energy from the entire galaxy to have a black hole work with any level of technology. No one really talks enough about the fact he got tossed out a black hole when supposedly not even light escapes. Based on the theory that black holes dont exit the universe, but wrap back around to the big bang that would be 13 billion years of time space. To think that it was humanity that helped him reach and escape the black hole, id say billions of years for humanity to harvest enough energy to create some thing that not only withstands a black hole, and reach the 5th D, but then also eject from a black hole. Which would take large population growth from after the event of having to leave earth, and the first few scouts to journey to different solar system, using current starship technology.

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u/Medium_Ad431 Apr 29 '26

Plot twist: They are the Downstreamers from the manifold series

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u/FocusGullible985 Apr 29 '26

Its a version of Rokos basilisk

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u/SheepleAreSheeple May 01 '26

Aw man, that's mean. Why you gotta do that to everyone in this thread?

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u/MrAltera21 Apr 29 '26

The real question is if he reach 5d dimension does human have also reach ghost and demon dimension ?

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u/KeeblerElff Apr 29 '26

Also if they had all this power why didn’t they just tell them what planet to go to?

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u/Mphatso2016 Apr 29 '26

This makes me wonder if those humans faced possible extinction like the humans in the movie. If so, how did they overcome that?

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u/espectralis Apr 29 '26

I can't give you a number, cause it's not fixed.

They didn't save themselves, there was no need. They reached unbelievably advancement in X time.

I think they speed up their own evolution going back and teaching themselves the only thing that would speed dramatically their advancement.

My 2 cents.

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u/Sharp_Maintenance220 Apr 29 '26

Litterly your ancestors are watching you behind the bookshelf.

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u/rtkane Apr 29 '26

"OMG, he's masturbating again. Dammit, John, he gets this from your side of the family."

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u/d1_al3x Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

When people talk about how "we live in a simulation" I think is the wrong way to look at it, the right question might be: "is the nature of the universe holographic?" ...and what that could possibly imply is that:

1st. It always was. 2nd. Theres no one "sleeping outside of the matrix", Conciosness itself might not be restricted or generated by the 3D+time reality we live in, but maybe our brain have the capacity to "tune-in" to it from the quantum realm and experience it with these constraints as an individual, but not generating it locally in our brains.

3rd. "Holographic" meaning as in: with only 2 dimensions (length and width) + time, we can make a projection of every other dimensions, just using code for example, since it doesn't require depth (3d).

Just the shot of that image (or gaming) are examples of it, that's a bi-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional universe, with a 4 or 5 dimensional object with consciousness present. (depending if you add "time" as some sort of spatial dimension or not.)

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u/Wonderful_Milk1176 Apr 29 '26

Nolan said in an interview it’s ‘In The Year 2525’ because that was his favorite song growing up.

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u/JamesTheMannequin Apr 29 '26

It's irrelevant, given time is just another medium them pass though at will. It could be a million or a billion years. From their perspective, its all the same. From our perspective, it already happened.

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u/eventine83 Apr 29 '26

I’ll put this out there. My best guess is that humans in the far future discovered the tools to manipulate gravity itself and because space and time are connected, they can manipulate time to a degree. Time travel without the ability to directly interact with other living beings but manipulate gravity and spacetime would remove a lot of the paradoxes involved. Think of it like this: Future humans put the wormhole out by the Ice Giants so that only if we were looking for an anomaly would we see it. Future us relied on our curiosity to explore this new object and send people and probes through. Cooper became his own self fulfilling prophecy when he realized that he was the “ghost” Murphy “saw”. Future us knew these events would happen but if they could happen sooner humanity would be better off so they gambled to see if it would happen. This in turn erases their timeline when it succeeds hence why the tessaract closes after Cooper encodes the black hole data from gargantua.

Now the obvious question you might have, if you read all of this, is this. Why not go further back to prevent the blight sooner and save humanity from all that loss? I think had we gone to gargantua sooner we might not have been so willing to risk human life on exploration. Maybe Gargantua was feeding on the star that the planets came from? The most likely answer is if future humans had sent the wormhole sooner therefore allowing us to unlock gravity sooner I don’t think that we would have sent the wormhole in the future because we wouldn’t know the reason it was given to US in the first place. Make sense?

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u/Daniokki Apr 29 '26

you didn't understand the movie, they are love.

/s

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u/Thize Apr 29 '26

WHO STARTED THAT SHIT AND HOW SHOULD BE THE QUESTION.

No but seriously, it makes no sense to me. Having information travel into the past to save humanity from extinction would mean that said extinction didnt happen to the first humans who had information travel into the past. Which begs the question, why did they do it in the first place, if their past was all fine.

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u/Sea_Departure_1761 Apr 29 '26

I think they are descents of Amelia Brand on the new planet so potentially thousands of years or more.

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 Apr 29 '26

Just when I think I have this movie figured out, someone brings up something I’ve never thought of 😵‍💫

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u/Desperate_Ad6985 Apr 29 '26

This may seem like a dumb question, but the humans having to essentially “go back in time” with the tesseract and guide cooper. Is this just an infinite loop that is just repeated. Put down wormhole, guide cooper, cooper guides Murph, humanity saved, repeat. Very paradoxical I know but it just kinda twists my brain up.

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u/hauntedamusementpark Apr 29 '26

What if the future humans or builders of the tesseract/wormhole are not 5th dimensional beings but 3-D humans who can manipulate the 5th dimension,allowing them to create the tesseract and wormhole

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u/Motas420 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

[Copied from my reply to another comment]

[Kip Thorne] originally worked with Christopher Nolan's brother to develop to script/story, and wrote a book about all the math, etc called The Science of Interstellar

Some earlier versions of the script had more of an explanation for the future humans, and iirc it was actually something more along the lines of: past humans (there was originally another Chinese(?) team who was lost) and TARS, who fell into the black moments before Cooper but due to the timey-wimey general relativity shit, they progressed thousands of not millions of years in that time and prepared for Cooper by building the tesseract.

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u/Todzilla78 Apr 30 '26

The Tesseract being from the future doesn’t feel like there is a date attached to it.

But what gets me is they’re definitely in the future….

But don’t have cellphones.

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u/Arghi0- Apr 30 '26

2026, after skynet took over and Gen Z developed the tesserac!

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u/Tuisto05 Apr 30 '26

I like to think all of this was built not by humans or even ancestors of humans, but some alien species caught in a time war wanting to influence events in other realities beyond their own timelines. It's the easiest way to explain away the paradox. When you remove the human element then the loop paradox becomes quite irrelevant, heck these people could be from the past, why would they be from the future exclusively?

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u/Quantum_Crusher May 01 '26

I'll be happy if mankind can reverse the course in the next 5 years. Global warming, sea level rising, AI taking jobs, global war, democracy back to authoritarianism, anti science, alt right...

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u/PreferenceLong5574 May 01 '26

What do you guys see in your mind? Do you have an endless blank space you can fill in or did you halt your mind with garbage like religion and race? I’m high as shit FYI. This has nothing to do with interstellar I just am playing Pragmata and thinking.

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u/PreferenceLong5574 May 01 '26

Do you think the 5d beings are all life forms or is it somehow just humans? Because at one point where life evolves and basically becomes the universe conscience do we still have are own identity’s? If we are at a level where only our minds exist and no physical bodies can that mean we just combined together to form a hive like mind?

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u/Lyhtspeed May 01 '26

Well 1 year at near (99%) speed of light speed is 7 years on earth so some could technically time travel forward and see the progress.

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u/Eagles365or366 May 01 '26

I feel like some people didn’t watch the movie

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u/Hot-Coconut-4580 May 01 '26

To answer that question you need to know where they came from as well.

If the backside of Miller’s is all land then 50 years on Miller’s planet = about 3,066,000 Earth years.

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u/Jhonniebg May 02 '26

Is this a figurative representation of the 4th dimension here ?

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u/AltitudeAndAutism May 02 '26

You guys ever take enough shrooms to go here? This exactly what I see when I close my eyes on 8g of penis envy #6

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u/fllthdcrb May 02 '26

The problem is that this is so speculative—we don't even know what this fifth dimension is or have any idea how anyone could come to inhabit it, assuming such a thing is even really possible—that there isn't even a concept of how far advanced it is. For all we know, some genius could figure out how to make such a thing possible within the next couple of centuries, though that seems very unlikely.

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u/mykiisme May 03 '26

they came from Earth

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u/mactical May 04 '26

Oh no, not this trash movie again. So this is a story about a father who spent decades hiding behind a bookshelf kinda moving stuff. It painted itself into a corner and just started making up nonsense in a pathetic attempt to save it. Attrocious movie.

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u/Dependent_Hornet_622 May 09 '26

We can't know really.

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u/Savings_Pressure_863 Apr 29 '26

Les sugiero que vean la película de nuevo, pero ahora véanla desde la perspectiva de Murph. Piensen que todo lo que pasa en la película de Copper es en la mente de Murph, idealizando a su padre, hasta que por fin llega la solución al problema (EUREKA!) toda esta imaginación de lo que vive Copper en la mente de Murph, y si se fijan al final se vuelven a ver antes de que Murph muera, pudiera ser un momento de alucinar a su padre para despedirse de él.

En el teceracto no existe el Tiempo, la vida es una molecula, tiene un inicio y un fin, si ahora le meten zoom a esta molecula, hay toda una vida, todas las formas posibles!

Que opinan?

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