Fear from other time and space, before the age of technology, was heaven and hell, and the pace of demons coexisted with the moodiness of God; In this era, it may be the abyss, it may be another planet, another universe, or even the other end of time—
A variety of science fiction works with the theme of "time and space crisis".
Contact space phobia
In Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, two parallel universes exchange energy through "electronic channels," as if each taking what they need. In the story, behind such vested interests, the one that hastens destruction usually must be our universe. That's what makes it revelatory.
In The Mist, based on Tiffin King's novel, the door is opened to a foggy world with demonic wings, bloodthirsty, and massive creatures that come to this world, and the caged bird humans are immediately plunged into a religious struggle. Without redemption, the redemption of destruction is the true theme of the end times.
The sense of fear here is not a distant foreign land, but a chimerism, and our world and the heterogeneous space are a mixed world similar to the combination of AR (Augmented Reality) technology. This fear of invasion does not exist on a distant front, conceptually, more like the trench from which the monsters in cloverfield come from, relative to us, that is, the universe inside the earth, which humans know very little so far, even compared to the moon, may be more unfamiliar, and strangeness in some ways means danger, in fact it is part of us, we do not often use the appendix organ, we can not touch the back... That's why there are so many "don't look back" plots in ghost stories.
Thus, the fear of the uncertain space contains a contact phobia. It's like a spider jumping on your hand, and you must subconsciously throw it away, so that creepy thing and the time and space it occupies are as far away from you as possible.
If the world were an apple tree: parallel universes of one trade-off and the other
The Nordic World Tree.
There are shadows of the world tree in myths around the world, which is the earliest parallel universe (multiverse) concept. The most famous is the Norse myth of Yggdrasil, a tree described as the whole of the universe, divided into three layers and nine worlds, with humans living in the midgard on the second floor and the asgard at the top. Some of the racial settings of the science fiction drama Stargate series come from Norse mythology, as well as various mythological systems including Egyptian mythology and Chinese mythology, and fighting against otherworldly threats from aliens or even from parallel universes has become one of the most important themes of the series.
The parallel universe concept says that if the sum of the worlds is a tree, then the fruit of the tree is a parallel universe; We envision that an apple tree can only obtain a certain amount of nutrients and energy, then the nutrition and energy obtained by all the apples on the apple tree must not be unlimited, there are larger apples and smaller apples; The smaller the number of apples, the larger they must be—the strength of one universe represents the decline of another similar universe. The anime manga "Earth Defense Boy" (ぼくらの) is described with this intention, and fringe brought to us by J. J. Abrams seems to be called "Earth Defense Girl". The intensifying conflict between the two earths in "Edge of Crisis" has reached its climax in the final episode of the second season, and the contest between the worlds has become a commonplace plot composition. In addition to space, the play begins to painstakingly spend time — erasing the protagonist from the timeline, which in fact probably produces a third or fourth universe.
The parallel cosmic crisis of Edge of Crisis.
Malicious time
In addition to the repeatedly mentioned "Terminator" series, "Twelve Monkeys", "Donnie Darko", "The 4400", "Heroes", "Lost", "FlashForward" and so on are all. In the new version of FOX's spin-off series Terminator; In the Terminator parallel universe of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Earth is still threatened by robots, and it explains to us the possibility that John Connor exists: maybe there was no John Connor before John Connor went to the future, which is why those people did not hear of him when John Connor, who finally crossed to the future, mentioned his name. Because that moment of crossing is really the beginning of the legend of rebel leader John Connor. John Connor was nothing more than a fictional historical figure, like all gods, who everyone thought existed, and so he appeared, like jesus, a messiah, an anointed one who came down from heaven. An image of a savior, a heroic symbol, is the focus of almost all works with a doomsday complex. Especially if we mess up, such a symbol of redemption is needed.
In Tim Bowles's Three Days To Never, Einstein thought that using a nuclear bomb to wipe out everyone in a city was something to consider, but erasing a person's existence entirely on the timeline touched his bottom line. Living miserably, better than not living, is our compromise with existence.
But the truth is that time can indeed torture people. In Junji Ito's manga "Long Dream", the time that flies inside the sleeping shell is like the outside of the earth in the novel "Spin", in the human universe, time flies by, the stars die, and it is pitch black. Time allows you to experience the fear of aging, and it also brings you the horror that you can't get rid of.
Time always connects countless you, and you can't connect time; From another point of view, each of us is not isolated by time on the earth, if you no longer observe the changes in the people around you, you stop changing, for you the time of the world has come to an end. In turn, let too much other people's time interfere with you, and you will also be confused to death. And this psychological apocalyptic simulation of time is, in terms of pattern, like a miniature speculative template for the evil consequences of time travel.
Arthur Clark, a British science fiction novelist who has lived in Sri Lanka for the rest of his life, has this wonderful metaphor for memory: memory is like an island on the surface of the sea, which seems to be unrelated on the surface, but the foundations on the seabed have always been closely linked. That sea is time, and when one day the sea dries up, all the memories will truly merge, past, present, or future, yours, or mine—that's probably why the "sense of sight" (déjàvu) exists. As described in Childhood's End, if this is the case, we don't actually know whether myths come from the past or the future, and whether demons come to harm us or guide us. For us, the time is probably the devil itself.
In The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse's fictional world of Royston Vasey, the world faces an end, and the only way to prevent disaster is for strange inhabitants (nightmare characters) to find their way to the real world and confront their creators.
In a movie disney pictures is planning, "Time Zones", because of a global event, different parts of the earth are caught in different eras, different times are divided to occupy the geographical surface, crossing different "time zones", which means a time travel...
The above example can be roughly explained by the strangeness of the time and space crisis. The flow of time and the imprisonment of space give us existence, just as current and hard disk give AI, such existence, fear is existence itself.
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