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Interstellar follows humanitys last-ditch effort to find a new habitable planet

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after Earth is ravaged by environmental catastrophe. When former NASA pilotturned-corn farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) finds the coordinates to a top
secret government project, hes brought in on the secret that the government has
secretly been working to send a crew through a recently discovered wormhole in the
hopes that humankind can find refuge in a new galaxy. However, in order to help
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journey into unknown regions of space.

Like many Christopher Nolan films, Insterstellar presents a number of complicated
story ideas that may be confusing for certain moviegoers especially after a first
viewing. For that reason, were here to help breakdown how space travel works in
the movie, as well as explain Interstellars ending. Our discussion is going to be full
of SPOILERS for Interstellar, so READ NO FURTHER unless youre all caught up.
You have been warned.
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Early on in the film we learn that the US government has secretly been funding a
NASA project to find humankind a new home since Earth is being ravaged by blight
(and can no longer sustain agriculture). Cooper questions how NASA intends to find
a planet capable of sustaining human life since humanity is already living on
borrowed time, and transport to the nearest galaxy alone would take

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decades. Professor Brand (Michael Caine) then reveals that an unknown civilization,
which he refers to as They (more on them later), have strategically created a
wormhole near Saturn a wormhole that can serve as a shortcut to a distant region
of space.
As explained by Romilly (David Gyasi) in his impromptu paper hole example, our
understanding of distance is based in three-dimensions whereas theoretical
physics suggests that space is a place of multi-dimensional interplay.
For that reason, the wormhole essentially functions as a bridge connecting two
points in space by taking advantage of imperceptible fourth dimensional space.
By the time that Cooper reunites with Prof. Brand, NASA has already sent thirteen
humans through the wormhole - each one on a mission to determine whether nearby
planets (on the other side of the wormhole) can sustain human life.
Upon arrival at their planet, each of the astronauts was to set up a beacon

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indicating that their planet was a candidate for human colonization. NASA cannot
communicate directly with the astronauts, but has been able to track their beacons
for nearly a decade of which only three remain active.

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As a result, it is up to Cooper and the rest of the Endurance crew to uncover the fate
of the other three astronauts and collect any subsequent data that can be used to
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humanity.
Should the Endurance team find a habitable planet, Brand claims that NASA has two
plans for humanitys survival:
Plan A) While the Endurance team is away, Brand will continue to work on an
advanced equation that, if solved, will allow humans to harness fifthdimensional physics specifically gravity. Should Brand succeed, NASA will be

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able to defy our traditional understanding of physics and launch an enormous

space station (carrying the remainder of Earths surviving population) into
space. The very facility that Cooper and Murph stumble upon at the beginning
of the film isnt just a NASA research station its a construction site for
humankinds space-traveling ark.
Plan B) Should Brand fail in his calculation and/or the Endurance take too much
time investigating potential homeworlds, NASA has harvested a bank of
fertilized human embryos that can be used to ensure humanitys survival - after
everyone on Earth is wiped out. To ensure genetic diversity, NASA procured DNA
from a wide range of sources so that future generations would not be limited
to reproduction between Endurance crew members. In this scenario, the

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Endurance team would settle down on the most habitable planet and raise the
first generation of embryos with each subsequent generation helping to raise
a new set of embryos (as well as reproduce naturally).
Later we learn that Professor Brand never believed that Plan A was possible
stating that he solved the equation years back, but it would not save them. He only
championed the idea in order to rally Earth leaders into working together and
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Plan B would be a success. Brand reasoned that people would not have cooperated
just to save humanity they needed to believe that working together could lead to
their own personal salvation.

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Upon learning that Plan A was a farce, Cooper and Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway)
commit to Plan B on their third (and final) planetary option where Amelias
astronaut lover, Wolf Edmonds, was still reporting a positive beacon. Yet, Cooper
remains unconvinced that Plan A is impossible and, as they use a nearby black hole
(dubbed Gargantua) to slingshot Endurance toward Edmonds planet, Cooper sends
TARS (the crews robot helper) into the center of the black hole - in the hopes that it
can translate data that might help NASA refine any missteps in Professor Brands
calculations.
Cooper also sacrifices himself to reduce weight on the Endurance, ensuring that
Amelia can make it to Edmonds planet and enact Plan B should TARS fail. However,
instead of dying alone in space, Cooper is pulled inside The Tesseract - the
gravitational singularity that is maintaining the wormhole created by the
aforementioned They.
But who are these beings (the They) that gave humanity a helping hand?

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Pink v8

2 days ago

TARS! Nice question The scene book ends the movie doesnt it. Which provides ammo for the
death dream proponents.
It does suggest a deadly ending.
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Batan

2 days ago

Can anyone please explain to me that why the water planet orbited around the black hole why has
light? I mean, we do need a star to do that right?
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Alexroxx

2 days ago

There was a star. The planets were in a solar system but they were orbiting the black hole
instead of the star. Normally a star is the body that has the biggest gravity in a system thus
having the planets revolve around it. But in this system the black hole is the center. The light

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was being sucked into the center black hole from the star in another part of the system. The
light on the planets was actually the refleciton of the black holes secretion disc which is around
the center.
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Darius

1 day ago

Wrong. There was no star (except for a neutron star mentioned early in the movie but is
never shown). THe light comes from the accretion disk surrounding the black hole, which emits
a lot of energy.
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Alexroxx

2 days ago

There was a star. The planets were in a solar system but they were orbiting the black hole
instead of the star. Normally a star is the body that has the biggest gravity in a system thus
having the planets revolve around it. But in this system the black hole is the center. The light
was being sucked into the center black hole from the star in another part of the system. The
light on the planets was actually the refleciton of the black holes secretion disc which is around
the center.
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Cassius83

2 days ago

The paradox is simple. Plan B worked giving humans a chance to build the Tesseract and also
knowing the history of Coopers mission due to Emilia starting the colony. It probably took them
much longer to discover how to manipulate gravity and obviously cost everyones lives on Earth, so
they(we)found it necessary to try and go back in time to help Cooper and make sure plan A
worked. MIND BLOWN!
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Rene

1 day ago

But if time travel was an option, why not go back and fix the issues with the soil and weather to
prevent the total shortage of food in the first place?!!
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Martin

1 day ago

Thats a good question, probably the found out that it was more convenient for mankind to
leave the planet than remain there.
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Yunus

1 day ago

he accidentally stucked into the tesseract and was not time travelling.i mean it was all due to
the worm hole and he had no idea that it will happen
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Papaquinn

1 day ago

@ Rene: Well Nolan argues that: (a)the rain stopped falling, (b) the winds picked-up and (c) a

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blight had adapted fast enough to wipe out everything they planted, and although Cooper
would argue that humans have always been able to fix things, history shows the opposite is
true if they coulda, they woulda. To Nolan, the only option is to vacate the Earth long
enough for it to heal itself.
Nolans other theme is that its better to leave the planet long before the sun fries it in 4
billion years. So towards that point, he needs Murph to put Cooper station into Saturns orbit
so Cooper can emerge, grab TARS and a ship to go help Brand in the other galaxy raise the
kids so he can pass on the idea of building a Tesseract in a Blackholes singularity, thereby
ensuring the species continual existence (in a time loop at least).
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Mauricio

22 hours ago

The reason is that that would imply an ontological paradox: the 5th dimensional future
humans have history records saying what was what happened to Cooper. If they acted
differently that would change their OWN history and would endanger the very path that took
them where they were.
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Rene

1 day ago

The paradox might be explained if we view time as a loop, instead of linear. Einstein said time is a
closed loop.
To ask how Cooper sent the message to his daughter if humanity would have had to survive in
the first place, is assuming time is linear, because youre asking for chronology.
But if time is a loop, then pre-destiny exists. So Cooper was going to succeed all along. It was
written in the stars. Humanity was meant to survive. If time was linear, then youd need cause
and effect and chronology.
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InfoWarsDotCom

1 day ago

I like your thinking but Plan B STILL relied on future humans being able to make the wormhole
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prospace

1 day ago

Neither plan would exist if the wormhole wasnt present which depends on humans having
travelled out of the solar system/galaxy without it in the first place. Hence, not needing to
manipulate the past to produce the wormhole since they were already off the Earth, Its a circular
paradox.
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Patob

13 hours ago

Then where did the wormhole come from that originally inspired NASA to start the funding to
leave earth?
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Patob

13 hours ago

Then where did the wormhole come from that originally inspired NASA to start the funding to

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leave earth??
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Gaurav

2 days ago

Hi, I am a Physics student from IIT in Belgium and a big Nolan fan. Watch out my review on
Interstellar:)
http://gaurav4292.blogspot.in/2014/11/interstellar-movie-review-from.html
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Brandon

1 day ago

You are awesome :). Thank you for that, Ill have to watch the videos when I get home but I
really appreciate you doing a review from a scientific point of view and actually explaining how the
science works. Not just a reviewer who doesnt understand the science, or even a scientist who
doesnt understand the story
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Gaurav

1 day ago

Thanks a lot Brandon

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Cassius83

2 days ago

I think Ive got it! The paradox is not to be solved but rather looked at differently. Its still a
paradox persay, but the FACT that Cooper was IN the 5th dimension and DID reach his past self
and Murph is the exact reason the paradox is complete. Time was no longer viewed as linear. If he
hadnt made it to the Tesseract, the equation would not be fixed in time and human kind would
parish on earth. That said, Plan B IS at first the only plan that worked giving humans time to solve
the equation, send for Cooper and allow him to reach his past self and daughter to insure Plan A
worked.. Ive gone cross-eyed..The bottom line is a paradox can always be solved if one has the
power to manipulate or travel through time,correct?
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yennik

2 days ago

But PLAN B could not be done, if there would be no wormhole made by future people, Cooper
coming to NASA because he called himself to do so etc.
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Cassius83

2 days ago

But, thats why its still a paradox. Think of it this way. Cooper reached a control room
(Tesseract)in the event horizon where time is irrelevant thus resetting everything that has
happened in the past to create a new future! We cant think of time (past and future) as an
absolute. It is infinite and Cooper was able to manipulate this when he reached the event
horizon.
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InfoWarsDotCom

1 day ago

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But again, Cooper cannot reach the 5th dimension (and humanity cannot survive) without
the wormhole being there in the first place.
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Cassius83

2 days ago

I think Ive got it! The paradox is not to be solved but rather looked at differently. Its still a
paradox per say, but the FACT that Cooper was IN the 5th dimension and DID reach his past self
and Murph is the exact reason the paradox is complete. Time was no longer viewed as linear. If he
hadnt made it to the Tesseract, the equation would not be fixed in time and human kind would
parish on earth. That said, Plan B IS at first the only plan that worked giving humans time to solve
the equation, send for Cooper and allow him to reach his past self and daughter to insure Plan A
worked.. Ive gone cross-eyed..The bottom line is a paradox can always be solved if one has the
power to manipulate or travel through
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Cassius83

1 day ago

Time is pre-determined therefore Cooper was and always has been in the tesseract to solve the
equation. A paradox is simply what we make because we see time as linear. Its a narrow minded
view of how the universe really works and exists..
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IngaMit

1 day ago

Can someone please explain to mewho sent the coordinates to Copper? We know he sent stay
message. I got an impression that he didnt send the coordinates to himself because he was yelling
stay at himself while on the 5 dimensional time
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Brandon

1 day ago

No its him. Right after he sends STAY he realizes he is the ghost and starts doing everything
else that the ghost did. During that scene he also spaces out the dust on the ground to make
the binary language to send them to NASA. he then codes the data into the watch.
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Arnab

1 day ago

Wonderful explanation real food for thought

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Aravind Sivasailam

1 day ago

The only riddle that remains to be solved is: Who are the future humans referred to as they in
Interstellar?
Ive come to the conclusion that they are the human embryos that have grown up on Edmunds
planet. Okay, so heres the timeline that happened in my mind: bear in mind there are holes in this
theory I have.
1. In the original timeline, Cooper successfully maneuvers a NASA spacecraft and doesnt crash it.
Impressed with his skills, NASA details him about the mission: Interstellar and that point theres
only Plan B. However, Coopers wife has just died and he has to look after his kids and tells no as
its too much of a risk. The 13 scientists are sent as probes and one of them accidentally discover a

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wormhole that appears near Saturn (ASSUMPTION). They go ahead and enter the new galaxy. Rest
of it are all same. The Earth gets worse with the dustbowl and so when Brand comes to Cooper the
second time with data sent by the scientists, he says Yes but under the condition that he take his
children with him.
2. They reach the wormhole, enter the new galaxy. During their goal to reach a habitable planet, his
son and few other people die as well. (ASSUMPTION). The human embryos landed on Edmunds
planet for Plan B under Amelia, Edmund, Murph, Cooper and Prof.Brand. (Amelia meets Edmund
falls in love completely).
3. After having found that the planet is suitable to live, they realize that they could have saved
Earth and its people, but they are still unsure if Earth has been destroyed or not. So, Cooper
sacrifices himself alongst with TARS inside the blackhole the first time. Cooper dies inside the
singularity realizing that its a 5th dimension, but TARS is able to send back data.
4. Murph is motivated to solve the gravity anomaly under Dr.Brand in the new planet for the sake of
her father, but they both die in the process due to old age and leave breadcrumbs for the future
people. She however also leaves memories of her and her father and her little ghosts theory in.
However before they all die, they remember their roles in the altered timeline as well. Coopers is to
die inside the blackhole, Dr.Brands to convince the people to undergo the mission no matter what
(Reason for him lying), Murphs destiny to solve the equation, Amelia and Edmunds love is
remembered beyond time and space as Amelias mission is to find Edmunds planet with embryos
and Edmunds is to find this habitable planet.
5.The human embryos solve the equation in future. They know Murph and Brand and Amelia and
learn about Earths destruction and decide to look into the past to change things a certain way so
the Earth and its people can be saved. (But there will be repercussions to their future as a result of
this). They decide to construct a tesseract with memories of Cooper and Murph knowing Coopers
destiny to die in the wormhole.
6. First things first, they place a tesseract inside the singularity of the wormhole that appeared
naturally near Saturn. During that process, in the Altered Timeline, NASA is able to spot that
wormhole. Rest of the film happens as it is.
7. So, everything goes as planned. However because of them messing up with the timeline, Edmund
dies as the scientists decide to take a detour due to the possibility of Plan A. Amelia knows this is
wrong because of her love, which is why she asks for Cooper to go to Edmunds planet instead of
Dr.Manns (which i think is a second mistake). Finally, Cooper goes inside the wormhole to get data.
DIES SECOND TIME IN THE PROCESS, however because of the tesseract is able to get the data
across to her daughter.
8. The Final sequences of stretch in which Cooper wakes up to the new world is in my opinion a
dream. We dont know if Murph and the survivors are able to use that equation to save Earth or
not. The film is open-ended in that aspect.
Your thoughts, peeps?
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Stollz

1 day ago

Im afraid not, because the wormhole they accidentally discover is not there by chance, it is also
placed there by the future humans.
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Leonard Bauer

4 hours ago

Not sure if i missunderstood you, but they didnt safe the world in the end right? The just
managed to escaped and he wakes up on a space station orbiting saturn..
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Lady Kaede

1 day ago

It is a lovely chart . . . but the object labeled Black Hole should be labeled Worm Hole. (Gargantua
is the black hole.)
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Dan

1 day ago

One question folks, the wormhole near Saturn? How did it get there? It is impossible for the Plan B
humans to have put it there, we havent been through it yet to start plane B. Or is the wormhole
infact an accidental find?
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Reece

1 day ago

This is where it is paradoxical and becomes hard to understand. We as humans see the world
through a four-dimensional perspective: the first three dimensions being spatial/ physical, and
the fourth being time. We see time as a linear, chronological concept.
Wormhole appeared > Plan B humans entered wormhole > Plan B humans survived on
Edmonds planet > Plan B humans created wormhole in future > Wormhole appeared
If the Plan B humans created the wormhole in the future, then it couldnt have existed in the
present for them to get to the future in the first place. So from this perspective and this
understanding of the universe, its impossible.
But looking at it from a five-dimensional perspective, the first three dimensions and time all being
spatial/ physical and the fifth being (as in Interstellar) gravitational, it is possible. Because the
Plan B humans exist in a five-dimensional universe where time is spatial they can travel across
time just like we travel across flat surfaces. They would see every moment of the past, present
and future just like we can see left, right, up and down. Thats what the Tesseract that Cooper
was in was he could see every single moment in time that Murph experienced from behind the
bookshelf, and he could manipulate things in each moment in time he was seeing and travelling
through time because he was experiencing time as a spatial concept, not a separate, linear
concept.
Were used to asking: what came first, the chicken or the egg? Imagining that the humans are
the chicken and wormhole is the egg: the chicken had to come first in order to create the egg.
But the egg needed to already exist, for the chicken to be born. The humans had to exist in
order to create the wormhole (so they could survive), but the wormhole had to also already exist
in order for humans to use it in order to survive (and create it). But this way of thinking is
incorrect.
The chicken came first. But the chicken already existed in time, forever. The chicken existed
literally in time, and it travelled back in time to create the egg, which in turn created the chicken.
The chicken needed to create the egg in order to exist, and it constantly went back in time
creating the egg, in a temporal loop. Saying that the wormhole couldnt have appeared because
humans hadnt gotten to Edmunds planet yet makes sense from a four-dimensional perspective:
but the humans werent just on Earth in the year 2100. The humans also existed in the future,
in a five-dimensional universe, with the natural ability to travel through time and manipulate the
past to create the wormhole: and they always existed there. They always existed in the future
just like they always existed in the past, because time isnt a one-way street or linear concept,
time is nonlinear and multidimensional with no beginning and end, it always was and always is.
Apply Romillys explanation with the piece of paper: we see time as a straight line on a piece of
paper, point A to point B, always moving forwards. But Romilly curves the piece of paper into a
circle, showing that time is not a straight line but a never-ending loop with no distinct beginning
or end. Humans existed on Earth at one point in time, and existed on Edmunds planet at
another point in time one was not necessarily before or after the other, and each existence
was necessary to create the other. It was (it IS) a loop. Of course this is all just complete
speculation.
So how did the wormhole get there? I dont know much about wormholes but here are my three
theories: It could be an accidental find, or five-dimensional alien beings created it in order to
assist humanity to survive, or humans from the future who existed in five dimensions traversed
through time to create the wormhole (and thus ensure their own existence). Personally Id say
the alien theory makes the most sense, but the human theory is still plausible, and I dont know
about the wormhole accidentally appearing (I read somewhere that thats impossible).
Again remember that all of this is complete speculation, I dont know anything about space or
physics and Im just going off stuff Ive read on the internet and saw in the movie. And the
movie is sci-fi, so its not necessarily meant to be taken literally: none of this has been proven,
and thats the whole point of sci-fi: we dont know if its possible, but its the imagination,

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creativity and fascination with the unknown that makes it interesting.

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Jon

22 hours ago

I must say very interesseting reading!

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Julie

7 hours ago

Great read! Thank you for taking time to write this. It just makes me think of the movie with a
whole new perspective and Im mind blown, yet again!
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Ash

less than a minute ago

I dont see why the fifth-dimension humans would go through so much trouble to save us if
they existed no matter what (at all times). Nice theory though.
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Pete

1 day ago

Its burn and rave at close of day. Not burn and rage..
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Maddoxx

1 day ago

so in the end..
Murph brought human kind to where?
Cooper station floating around at the galaxy or another planet?
Thanks
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shrwan

1 day ago

im sorry to say this but all the concepts of physics went to hell as soon as he entered the
singularity and what explains the convenient location of gargantua behind murphs bedroom? its
like nolan saying cause i said so but we need more than that.its not religion to go by faith.its
science.if nolan comes out and says yes,i didnt know how to end the film so i resorted to deus-ex
machina of they and fifth dimension then people will let it be.as long as he claims he ending to
be scientifically plausible.this piece of s*** tribute to another snobby piece of s*** 2001:space
odyssey will be ripped apart by non-nolan fanboys
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Brandon

1 day ago

It is pretty clearly shown in the movie. Once again, it has to be explained that this is SCIENCE
FICTIONnot science factso yes some physics went out the window with that scene. It is clearly
stated that it is a tesseract that was made by They aka the future humans to show time in a
3D & more linear way for him to understand. Where did Nolan state that the specific part of the
film is scientifically plausible? in another article on this site (http://screenrant.com/interstellarmovie-plot-holes-science-christopher-nolan/) He clearly states in this interview I know where we

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cheated in the way you have to cheat in movies, and Ive made Kip aware of those things. but
that the other science was consulted on. If people seriously think that that scene can be
explained with our current knowledge of science, and saw that as him saying it was factual then
they are missing the point that this is a MOVIE. and in the realm of the movie it is explained how
the hall of time got there, so it isnt just Nolan saying cause I said so. I can see some people
maybe attacking a movie like Gravity that is supposed to be entirely based in our current
knowledge of science, but for ppl to pick apart a movie that is almost completely based on
theories and things we dont have the complete knowledge of? it makes no sense. *Im also
confused by your its not religion to go by faith. its science because going by faith is exactly
what religion is. *btwIm agonistic lol
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InfoWarsDotCom

18 hours ago

HahaI dont think anyone is trying to say Interstellar is a lying documentaryits more that
there is a plot hole. It is NOT fantasy so there should be some plausibility to help us connect
with the characters and plot holes tend to take (some of) us out of the movie.
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Kevin

19 hours ago

Its fiction man, relax.

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Matt C

1 day ago

My buddy and I disagreed about this, but I dont think the Tesseract was manufactured by future
humans. I think it is a space available in the singularity. Cooper was there because he wanted to be,
and anything is possible in that dimension of infinite possibilities. He desired to communicate with
young Murph and himself, and he found himself in a unique plane of existence where he could freely
travel throughout his past and influence that reality.
Think of it like this: The first time Murph and Cooper were in the room, there was no gravity wave
communication. And that version of reality is unaltered. BUT, the sixth (or is it seventh?) dimension
accounts for every possible outcome or variation to exist. In Coopers unique location once he
entered the singularity, he conceived of communicating the co-ordinates via gravitational waves, and
was immediately transported/present in the branch of possibilities that contained his ghost
communicating that way. So, the story told in Interstellar is a unique combination of infinite
possibilities that resulted in humans learning how to travel through wormholes.
But, there is an infinite number of timelines where the humans fail to survive also.
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Kindren

1 day ago

I think you got the time thing wrong in this case. It wasnt that the crew was on the other side of
the wormhole that made time slower for them. In fact, I think the time on the Edmund planet
probably runs about the same amount of time that earth runs at. I think that when they did the
sling shot around the black hole, they were even closer than planet Miller was to the black hole, so
the time it took to sling shot around felt like a short time to them, but was another 50-70 years
from the earths perspective (which I think they mention offhandedly while they are doing the
slingshot maneuver).
I guess to put it more simply, by the time he released his ship into the black hole, everyone on
earth was already at the age they are at the end of the movie. The black hole took him in, and
because of the tessaract, or because time space arent factors inside a black hole, or magic, he gets
spit out at nearly the exact same time that he went into the black hole, only on the other side of
the wormhole.
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Kindren

1 day ago

I also want to point out something that has been driving me crazy for awhile (even before this
movie). People keep calling us 3rd dimensional beings, but in fact we are 4th dimensional beings.
We live in the 4th dimension (1,2, and 3 being spacial, and 4 being time), and can affect the
dimensions below us (the spacial dimensions). A 5th dimensional being would be a being one
step above us, a being who lives in the 5th dimension (1, 2, and 3 being spacial, 4 being time, 5
being presumably spacial again) who can affect the dimensions below the one it lives in (so 1st4th). I was super thrilled that this movie got the correct terms for the dimensions of beings, but
I have seen many articles that still refer to us as 3rd dimensional beings which bothers the heck
out of me.
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daygobah

1 day ago

This movie sucked as for being science based is total BS. Nothing just orbits a blackhole. We got a
blackhole in the center of our galaxy the stars around it do yes sort of orbit but they will fall into
the blackhole. And really a blackhole does emmit alot of radiation also. Specially on its pole axis huge
ammounts of radiation. And this whole time thing with the future humans making the wormhole in
the first place. How did they do that? If say the future humans the ones who made the wormhole
and the thingy in the wormhole. How did those future humans survive the earth that was to kill all
humanity. They should of just left it as aliens did it. The scientist who put his name to this is probly
kicking himself now.
The effects looked great good camera work and editing. The story with the future humans crap just
made it suck so bad.
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iwonder

1 day ago

It has a been a week since I watched Intersteller and I have found myself wondering, why did they
even go to the planet orbiting the blackhole, with a 1 hour to 7 years time dilation. surely this was
the most dangerous of the planets to explore especially with limited time and fuel? Was the crew
just asking for trouble. The decision felt arrogant and foolhardy. but then I chalked it off to if
theres no problem to overcome theres no story and the film becomes a expensive science
documentary on the discovery channel
I also found the Dr Mann/Matt Damon scenes the most interesting. from his waking up to his death.
The idea that the instinct to survive is the most powerful
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Brandon

1 day ago

Well when you think about it, it makes sense in a strange way. They go through the blackhole,
only had 3 options as far as hospitable planets and that was one giving a positive signal from
Miller to check it out as a prospect. if one of your trusted scouts said it was okay to check out
and you dont have many other options youd probably try. as they said in the film due to the
time dilation Miller had probably just landed before them, before she was killed by the
wave/realized the planet wasnt that safe. how could they have known it was an all water planet?
Still, youre rightnot the best choice lol. I wouldve checked out the other safer ones first, then
checked that one on the way back. I enjoyed the Matt Damon/Dr. Mann scene too. Everyone
keeps saying it was stupid/ruined the movie/wasnt needed, but I think it just illustrated further
the need to survive and what happens when you are in isolation like that. It made me feel
uncomfortable and scared because I didnt know where the story was about to go, which is great
when movies can do that.
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Jared

1 day ago

This was a very interesting movie. The one thing I never could figure out is exactly what year did
the story take place in at the beginning of the movie. Later on it is definitely way into the future
time but nothing futuristic has changed from when Cooper left to when we start seeing what is
going on back on earth. Still a very good movie.
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TroyWilliams

21 hours ago

The They is God, God is Love, Humans are the only beings that can express and understand
loveits wired in us.
If you were to take the flesh away from humans youd be left with pure energy. A human is made
up of Love (the always giving force aka God) and flesh (the ever dying force aka Satan).
so what im saying in regards to the movie is that its much simpler yet complex at the same time.
Wethe human raceAre God. We were always going to exist because love always did and
always will. The closer we get to really understanding our own duality and ability to reason the
closer we get to God, The creative force, Love. Not the commercial Love, the WORrrd that we
humans use like a whore, the actual thing itself is God. Its nuts and its scary but WE are God
and we make our own choices. Thing is that in this reality, this flesh reality that we are bound
too, is shared with Satan.
For me this movie helped me better understand my own struggles with faith, and it was a great
chunk of artwork steeped in philosophical food for thought.
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Bob

21 hours ago

Hi folks, a few bits have confused me.

1. Why did they lose the ability to send messages through the wormhole?
2. How did old Murphy know that Dr Brant was alive on the other-side of the wormhole at the end?
Cheers
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Andy

20 hours ago

I just saw the movie 2 more times at home. in his dream he was on board a ranger and hdd
same gear he uses at the end of the movie, going to edmunds planets to meet Brand.
Conclusion. 3d dimensions beans cant survive a black hole. he had a outer body experience and
enter the black hole. its was a dream all the time, 4th dimension is time. you are right. but time
ahead and back, we cant go back in time, only inside a dream and when inside a black hole even
your spiritual soul cant escape gravitational , he enters the 5th dimension then. pay attention
when murphy wakes hin from a bad dream and call hin a ghost. something is not right .
You dont need to have flesh and bones to get the answer you seek, your spirit can do it for you.
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patrick

17 hours ago

the scene inside the tesseract ruined it for me. damn.

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patrick

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how was he able to set her watch by touching beams. dont get it.
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bucknasty

16 hours ago

How did Coop end up on the mission and thus get to the tesseract to tell his past self the NASA
coordinates so that he couldend up on the mission?
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jim

9 hours ago

It works because we are only seeing 2 passes (if you count cooper contacting himself) of the
paradox. The loop in this film is ongoing so they can improve with each pass.
The first pass was a team able to tavel and possibly fall through a blackhole by mistake, Earth dies
long before they can do anything but possibly fall back through, to try again. And so forth
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Gautam Goswami

7 hours ago

After watching Interstellar, I searched a lot on internet to better understand the movie But this
post helped me a lot to understand the movie and this post has explained me in the best efficient
manner..!!
Thank you so much for such a nice explanation !!
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Fanman

6 hours ago

We saw Cooper push the books, we saw him place the coordinates and manipulate the Murphs
watch he seemed to be limited to her room, which begs the questions of; who made the
tractors malfunction? (In the scene after the parent teacher meeting) Who made his initial flight
crash happen? (NASA explained it wasnt his error but a gravitational nudge, much like the books
on the bookshelf) Who nudged the satellites to see the wormhole? (Again, NASA admitted theyd
bern contacted by gravitational nudges in this manner) Is this proof that Amelia went into the
black hole at some point? As Coop wouldve been limited to his daughters room could Amelia
been limited to the NASA HQ in her Tesseract?
Did she help her father solve the equation he pretended to be stuck on? Did professor brand
have to sacrifice his knowledge to ensure the plans success? Why did the wormhole appear 48
years before Coops mission? If a beacon signal could be picked up through the wormhole why
couldnt other communication? How could Coop shake Amelias hand in wormhole when our
future self and present self or future/present self cant coexist with our past self at the same
time?
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pirhanas

4 hours ago

how did future humans first survive to make a Tesseract given that there would have been no
Tesseract to save them
Remember that were talking about 5th dimensions here. Which means different timelines. So there
was a timeline where humans mastered the 5th dimensions and become evolved, and the other
timeline of the actual film. Future humans, as they have control over all dimensions, can
communicate with humans across all timelines, including the films.
This actually explains to me why they had to go to the 5th dimension in this film, instead of using 4
dimension. The answers to allow different timelines and more flexibility for the fans to argue against

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COOP

59 minutes ago

[Please correct me if I am wrong]

Reading comments below I get an idea that the plot is plagued by a paradox:
First plan-B succeeded so that future humans survive to ultimately set up the plan-A, but how
could plan-B succeed without a wormhole(part of plan-A) to Edmunds planet.
But couldnt this be avoided if we assume they are not future generations of human civilization,
but are some other intelligent species?
Also:
If we neglect the paradox, how did they(either humans or some other species) know Cooper will
ditch Amelia and fall into Gargantua, where they strategically placed Tesseract(A means for Cooper
to interact with her daughter in the past using Gravitational waves).
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COOP

51 minutes ago

*his
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