re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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Um, when he fell into the blackhole into the teseract, did he not go back in time?

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Nope.

They directly explained that in the movie.


Going back in time would have been him popping back in the bedroom with TARS after his younger self left and gone to Brand directly with the gravity solution.

The tesseract was a 4-dimentional construct within the fabric of spacetime (the plucking effects of the ribbons separating him from the world seemed to be a literal reference to string theory...that they would resonate like guitar strings when struck) allowing a three dimensional being to still exist, and to see the 4 dimensions in 3 dimension terms.


I hesitate to refer to science in terms of a comic book movie.....but think of the Watchman's Dr. Manhattan. He was a 4th dimensional being. He existed in all times simultaneously, seeing past and future at once. But he was still here in the present at a specific point in time and couldn't move his body back and forth in time.

The tesseract allowed Cooper to do this without being overwhelmed. He could have floated over to the bedroom after the last human left earth, and theoretically he could observe alternate realities of the bedroom. One where he never left for instance....

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You've given me nothing viable to change my mind.

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Of course not.


You have already expressly stated that your mind on what happened IN the movie was made up by something occurred OUTSIDE of the movie. When that is the case, how on earth can any compelling evidence within the framework of the movie's story or plot can change it?


The movie could have said in big bold letters with the inception BWAAAAAAA that the "Wormhole is open" and it wouldn't matter because to you, the matter was closed because someone who worked on the project in a previous iteration said he wrote that version that way.