Christopher Nolan has come again to challenge the audience's IQ, and it can be said that he has come to give everyone a brain-burning physics lesson through his film art. "Creed" uses the principle of "entropy" to interpret and reverse time and space, science fiction is interspersed with espionage elements, and the high density of information is enough to reflect the director's pattern, and also triggers people's thinking on the ethics of science and technology.
A work of art always shows man's pursuit of time and space
Some scholars say that the essence of science fiction is actually philosophy, because the presentation of science fiction can always make people feel a sense of fatalistic smallness, and always make people think about big problems beyond themselves. Time and space is the most recent dimension in which human beings can fantasize about breakthroughs, and science fiction movies are the most intuitive form of reflection of this fantasy by the public.
Speaking of science fiction classics, it is impossible not to mention the huge production "2001: A Space Odyssey", which was produced in 1968, which is admired not only for well-made details, predictions to some specific scientific and technological products today, but also full of philosophical propositions, from the origin of human beings to the cycle of life and death. The black mysterious boulder in the film symbolizes metaphysical things, full of theological colors, it is the carrier of civilization, the disseminator of wisdom, appearing at every key point of human journey and guiding the way forward. Through it, David, who wandered the universe, crossed the stargate and came to the mysterious space, where he witnessed his rapid metabolism in this time and space, until the oil ran out, and after touching the boulder, he changed into a star child, broke away from the original body, and existed in the universe in a more advanced form of consciousness. The audience who patiently watched this film could not help but sigh: the end of life has death, but time has no end, and death may be the beginning of another new life.
There is also a relatively niche film, 1997's "Time-Space Contact", compared to other films, this film does not have too many hard science fiction elements, no strange alien bodies, no spaceships and spacesuits, and even looks sleepy, in fact, it blends science fiction, science, religion, the spirit and philosophy of faith. The first half of the film focuses on a special machine that develops instructions from extraterrestrial civilizations, and in the second half, the machine is operated to send the heroine to an alien planet. The heroine saw the alien after the coma, it was actually her father who had died for many years, and it turned out that the alien life used the image of her father to talk to her. The plot reversal occurs when the protagonist wakes up to find that the machine has failed and that they have never left the ground at all. It is indeed difficult to confirm her experience from a scientific point of view, and can only continue to support the pace of exploration from a few subtle and incredible parameters and reverence for the universe. After watching this film, the audience may have another realization: time and space travel may not be the movement of our physical dimension, but may exist at the level of consciousness. Science has always tried to compete from the transcendental for the right to interpret the world, but we should also reflect on whether the limited known scientific knowledge also limits and denies facts, and the absence of a scientific attitude of reverence for transcendence can even hinder the way to the discovery of truth.
Before film and television, novelists also expressed their thoughts on human beings, time and space, and technology in the world of words. Regarding the ultimate mystery and grand idea of time travel, Isaac Asimov's recognized masterpiece The End of Eternity is one such book.
In the 24th century, humans invented the time force field. In the 27th century, after mastering the technology of time travel, human beings classified time and space into "eternal space-time" and "general space-time", and also established an organization called eternal space-time, which constantly performs the detection and modification of real time and space, so that it develops in a direction conducive to human survival. Specifically, it is first observed by the observer of general space-time, and then the calculator performs precise calculations based on the observations of the observer, and finally obtains accurate calculation results, and then the space-time technician initiates a change to change the course of history, by correcting the mistakes of the past, nipping all disasters in the bud, and ensuring that mankind has a peaceful future. However, this "absolutely secure" future came to an end one day.
Unconsciously formed a causal chain, fragile can be broken at any time to destroy. That is to say, human beings themselves are busy "saving" the world, but inadvertently disrupting the social development order, which will be destroyed by scientific and technological cleanliness.
The mysteries discovered by real-world research are even more exciting
In the 1990s, scientists proposed M theory can deduce the existence of 11 dimensions of the universe, and there have been many recent research news that the 11th dimension space is actually hidden in the human brain. Because the human brain is one of the most complex structures in history today, like a small universe containing multidimensional space, scientists believe that people in the dream are actually in 11 dimensions, at this time, the human brain is not bound by the dimensional space when forming the picture, and everything in the dream has nothing to do with the body. It seems to me that this study has confirmed the properties of different levels of human soul flesh, where the spiritual level can travel through time and space.
Nobel Laureate Roger. Penrose also proposed his theory of the universe: the universe recycles, the universe undergoes expansion, but eventually collapses into a singularity, once again through the Big Bang to create a new universe. The order of the universe reciprocates, the multiverse, the multiple space-time, and life will also bloom in these overlapping interlaces.
The speed of light is still the fastest speed we've ever found to transmit informational energy. According to the theory of relativity and a whole host of physics formulas, the speed of light is a tipping point for a kind of space-time reversal.
Speaking of the "Creed" mentioned at the beginning of this film, the original English name is "TENET", which is derived from the mysterious Latin palindrome cipher found in Pompeii, "Creed/Tenet", right in the center of this square, connecting up and down left and right, like a cross.
Sator Square is made up of 5 words, "SATOR", "AREPO", "TENET", "OPERA", and "ROTAS", forming a 5×5 square, forming an ingenious palindrome system. These 5 words can be pronounced whether from top to bottom, left to right, or from the opposite direction.
SATOR, meaning "seed" or "sower"; AREPO, is a script from ancient Egypt that cannot be interpreted to this day; TENET, that is, "creed", "law", "law", symbolizes cannot be shaken; OPERA, which refers to "opera house"; and ROTAS, has the meaning of "cycle" and "reincarnation".
Pompeii's volcanic burial in 79 AD illustrates the history of Sator Square, at least dating back to B.C., and it is believed that it was the Jews who created this palindrome. Although Sator Square is cleverly used by Nolan in science fiction films, its discovery is also extremely formal and unspeakable fatalistic.
In short, no matter what the direction of theoretical research, or the unexplained phenomena that human beings are experiencing, they confirm that the mysteries of time and space in film novels exist, not just pure human fantasies.
When looking up at the stars, do not forget the law of the heart
It is gratifying that today's film and television works and science fiction are no longer as simple superstitions and worship of science as in the early days of industrial development, and they will not promote machines and technology as a universal status. Arthur Clark famously said that "any technology that is too advanced is no different from magic at first glance", and many Western science fiction authors are loyal believers in this theory.
We are well aware of the finiteness of human beings, we can only discover and summarize the material and laws that can be understood in this limited dimension, and if we invade, interfere with, or tamper with the environment that belongs to us or does not belong to us with selfishness and domination, it will be full of disasters and dangers.
This introspection does sound more humble and intelligent, but there is still a lack of understanding, that is, as a derived or created human being, when describing and fantasizing about high-dimensional wisdom, there is only envy, transcendence and desire to achieve, still at the physical level of classification, without really recognizing the role of transcendence, is the need for respect and admiration, which modern people are far less than ancient people, spiritual awe has been obscured by industry and technology, and even many people will oppose science and transcendence. It is not known that scientific exploration is also a way to find and discover the mysteries of transcendence.
When I look up at the starry sky, I can always feel a strong gravitational force, which makes me firmly believe in the true source and destination of space-time and life, all we think, once, in the future, from the inside to the outside, from the individual to the system, just like a frame of work displayed in front of a transcendental character, looking forward to the day, we fully grasp the key to the dimension of time and space, more understanding of ourselves.