Introduction to Wormhole Depth in Interstellar
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Introduction → Plot summary → Conceptual explanation → The most thought-provoking paradox of time and space → Parallel time and space → Comprehensive analysis of details → The significance of drones → About science fiction films
introduce
Some things may seem mundane at first glance, but they contain a vast amount of information. The overall visuals of 'Interstellar' can be described as extremely concise, often consisting of a single space station, massive stars, long nights, and boundless loneliness forming a complete shot. However, the cost of Interstellar is as high as 976000 US dollars per minute, and all the information is hidden behind an extremely simple background.
This grand restraint and restraint is somewhat similar to Liu's description of the Three Body Problem:
Its massive information is hidden deep inside. Wang Miao can feel it, but he cannot be sure. He suddenly realized that the unusual thing about "The Three Body Problem" was that, compared to other games, its designers took the opposite approach - most game designers try to increase the amount of information displayed to create a sense of realism; But the designers of "The Three Body Problem" are trying to compress the amount of information to hide some huge truths, just like that seemingly hollow sky photo.
Complexity does not equate to richness in content, but rather the restraint of simplifying complexity, amplifying the philosophical propositions inherent in science fiction and making the plot more thought-provoking for the audience.
Moreover, this movie focuses on a five dimensional space-time, far beyond our cognitive limits as three-dimensional beings.
We are trying to understand five dimensions, which is like ants trying to understand a sphere that is just a projection of a flat circle. Moreover, even if ants know that the sphere is not a projected plane circle, they cannot imagine the sphere itself.
Similarly, the three-dimensional law of causality cannot explain the spatiotemporal relationship in this movie at all. If we use the law of causality as the first iron, we will inevitably fall into the paradox of time and space, where brain cells will die and become bald like light bulbs, and we will never understand.
Plot summary
Before formally analyzing the details of Interstellar Brain Burning, let's first review the plot:
The Earth is in a crisis of apocalypse, with various crops suffering from wilt disease, and humanity facing raging sandstorms and famine, on the brink of extinction.
A former NASA astronaut who worked as a homemaker, Cooper, discovered strange gravitational field phenomena in his favorite daughter Murphy's study: books inexplicably fell out of the bookshelf, dust fell from the ceiling, and they were arranged in special shapes.
The daughter's supernatural nature is understood as a ghost, but the man does not believe in the existence of ghosts.
Afterwards, the male protagonist deciphered the dust code, obtained a coordinate, and then discovered with his daughter that the coordinate was located at a certain scientific research institution.
There, the person met the old professor and his daughter Dr. Brand, and learned that former members of NASA were still secretly carrying out plans to save humanity.
They found three planets at the other end of the 'wormhole' that may be suitable for human habitation. So, the male protagonist and his team set off on the road to confirm which planet was suitable as a new home for humanity.
At this point, the professor has two plans. Plan A is to establish a space station to save everyone on Earth after obtaining gravity algorithms and black hole data. Plan B is to abandon everyone on Earth and migrate to another planet with fertilized eggs.
The professor asked the male lead to execute Plan B first, and agreed that when he sends back the black hole data, he will also calculate the gravity algorithm himself, and then execute Plan A. In fact, the professor believes that Plan A is impossible.
The man bid farewell to his daughter. The daughter said she had unlocked the password for the book that had fallen from the bookshelf and wanted to "stay", but the man still left.
Man and three other teammates embarked on a journey to the Cross Star. They traveled through wormholes to reach a new galaxy beyond the Milky Way.
In the wormhole, they saw the distortion of time and space, and Brand shook hands with them in the distortion.
In this new star system, there is a black hole - Kagan Tua, and three planets that may be suitable for human existence, namely Miller Planet, Mann Planet, and Edmunds Planet (named after the scientist who first landed on the planet).
Their first stop was the nearest planet Miller.
Planet Miller is located near the zero boundary point of the gravitational range of a black hole. Due to the immense gravity of the black hole, the time of this planet has slowed down, with one hour being equivalent to seven years on Earth.
It takes a lot of Earth time to land in Miller orbit. At that time, humans on Earth may become extinct, and the A plan for human migration cannot be realized.
So Cooper wanted to avoid the time distortion zone, enter an orbit parallel to Miller's orbit, reach the sky above Miller's planet, land directly, and then bring the sample data back to the space station for research.
This plan can save a lot of time, only about two years, but the disadvantage is that it consumes more fuel.
They left Romilly on the space station to study black holes, while the other three - Cooper, Brand, and the female lead Doyle - went to explore Miller's planet. Smooth landing.
But this planet has nothing but the vast ocean.
Due to the proximity of planets to black holes, the gravitational pull of black holes pulls tides, resulting in the generation of giant waves.
The cycle of the giant waves is almost an hour, and Brand's action mistake took up extra time, causing his teammates to sacrifice and the spaceship to fail.
They spent an extra hour draining the water and restarting the boat, and before the second huge wave arrived, they narrowly escaped death. In this operation, they paid a heavy price for 23 years on Earth and the sacrifice of their teammates.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the daughter of the male protagonist has grown up to become the professor's assistant for 23 years.
Before dying, the professor told Murphy that he had already solved the equation, but could not obtain black hole data. Therefore, at the beginning, only Plan B could colonize an alien planet, and Earthlings could only wait for death.
The camera returns to space.
Due to this operational error, the spacecraft ran out of fuel and had to choose one of the remaining two planets to ensure there was enough fuel left to return to Earth.
In terms of route selection, Cooper believes that the data from Man Planet is more reliable, while Brand believes that Man Planet, like Miller Planet, is located near a black hole and cannot produce miracles.
So the two of them had a disagreement. The male protagonist thinks that Brand wants to go to the planet Edmonds just because her boyfriend is there; The woman believes that the man is selfish and only wants to return to Earth to reunite with his daughter.
In fact, the male protagonist's goal is to implement Plan A and save more living people, including his daughter Murphy.
But Brand's mistake on Miller's planet prevented her from winning the discussion, so she had to follow Cooper's advice and go to Mann's planet.
Good cycle, who does the sky bypass? Last time it was the woman who made the mistake, this time it's the man's turn. As Brand said, there are no miracles on the planet Man. All the data was fabricated by Man to save himself.
Mann knew from the beginning that Plan A could not be realized because he could not enter the black hole to obtain gravitational data of the black hole.
In order to steal the spaceship and escape, Mann carried out a series of operations, including setting up a self disclosure program for the robot, killing black scientist Romilly, who had been studying black holes alone in the space station for 23 years, and luring the male owner to kill him. Of course, our male lead is not dead. But instead, send a message to the female lead and be rescued.
When the female pilot piloted the plane to rescue the male pilot, Mann stole the spacecraft and went to the space station, but the station exploded and Mann took the lunch box. Afterwards, the male protagonist used his superb driving skills to save the space station.
At this point, the relationship between the male and female leads finally eased.
However, after waves of turbulence, as they immersed themselves in the joy of victory, they suddenly discovered that the space station had slid into the gravitational range of the black hole.
If they want to escape, they have no choice but to use the black hole's "gravitational slingshot effect" to shoot at the space station on the planet Edmunds, otherwise it will be engulfed by the black hole. But the cost is that robots Tas and Cooper make sacrifices to separate from the space station
At the moment of separation, the woman received great love from the man.
It is said that the male protagonist entered a black hole, passed through a singularity, miraculously survived, and entered a strange space, which is the three-dimensional space where "they" were placed in five dimensions, commonly known as the "hypercube".
In this space, several four-dimensional spaces overlap and overlap. Men can freely switch to four-dimensional space.
He saw his daughter's life in the hypercube and thought of himself trapped in such a terrible place, with the mission of saving the world still unfinished. I regret it. If I had known I hadn't left, I would have stayed on Earth with my daughter.
So the books on the daughter's bookshelf were moved by gravity in a regular pattern, and the books fell to the ground. This is the secret of the ghost and password staying at the beginning of the movie.
The daughter deciphered the message left by the ghost and advised the man not to leave, but the man refused to listen. Previously, it happened according to the original trajectory.
Then, the robot in the same five dimensional space sent a message (although the robot and the male protagonist are in the same five dimensional space, there are high-dimensional rules that prevent them from seeing each other and can only talk to each other), telling him that they had obtained the black hole data.
Only then did the Lord realize. I think 'they' are the future Earthlings, and the Earth has been saved, so I passed on the dust coordinates to another self in the cube (corresponding to the dust that fell in the open space), and then transmitted the black hole data in Morse code through the hands of the watch I gave to my daughter.
This tacit understanding, this mental perception, is love. According to the movie setting, love is a special power that can travel through the universe. There is no evidence, but you know that love exists.
The camera comes to the other end of the earth.
Murphy obtained quantum data, solved the formula for gravity, and found a way to save the Earth.
Then the hypercube disappeared, and Cooper traveled through black holes and wormholes back to the solar system.
During Cooper's journey back into the solar system, he saw himself entering the wormhole and shook hands with Brand in a time warp. This also confirms that what Cooper said about "them" is actually "us", the future humans.
Due to the time difference between the black hole and Earth, Murphy has successfully built a four-dimensional space station and immigrated humans to the space station. The space station is also near Saturn (making it convenient to pass through wormholes), so Cooper and TASS were discovered and rescued by the space station.
The man woke up to find himself lying on a hospital bed and arrived at the space station built by Murphy.
At this time, Earth time has exceeded a hundred years, and Cooper's Earth age is 124 years old, but his actual age is only a few years older. At the same time, his daughter Murphy is already a nearly centenarian woman.
When he saw his centenarian daughter with his 37 year old body and a family full of children and grandchildren, he knew he had bought time but lost the most precious experience of accompanying his daughter's growth. Murphy told him that people cannot watch their children die and asked him to go to outer space to find Brand, who is as young and lonely as him.
So Cooper and the robot TASS stole a spaceship, went to the planet Edmunds, and flew into unknown space again··········
At the end of the film, the female protagonist arrives on the planet Edmunds, takes off her helmet, and heralds the continuation of human civilization in her new home.
Concept Explanation
Explain a few concepts:
① Gravitational slingshot effect:
The spacecraft uses the gravitational field of the planet to accelerate, and the planet's gravity catapults the spacecraft out like a slingshot. Similar to the slingshot we used to play with when we were children, if we pull back hard and release it, it will quickly bounce out. The application in the movie is to make the black hole pull them closer to the calculated critical point, ignite the spacecraft instantly, and use the gravitational slingshot effect to shoot the spacecraft towards a new planet.
② Spiral descent deceleration
In the film, the plane descends in a spiral manner on a vast sea surface because the spiral descent has a longer distance than the straight descent. In the case of rapid descent, by extending the descent distance, that is, extending the resistance time of the air to the spacecraft, the atmospheric resistance to the spacecraft's descent can be maintained, thereby slowing down the descent speed.
③ Singularity
A singularity is a point of infinite density and volume.
Singularity is a form of existence in the universe before the Big Bang. It possesses a series of peculiar properties, such as infinite density of matter, infinitely curved spacetime, and infinitely close to zero entropy. Any modern physical and mathematical theorem fails at singularities.
The most brain burning spatiotemporal paradox in the entire film
Let's first analyze the most perplexing 'paradox of time and space' for everyone.
Just to declare, almost any science fiction film about time travel cannot escape the discussion of the paradox of time and space. This is only a specific analysis of the high-dimensional spatiotemporal relationships involved in the film.
When you use the three-dimensional law of causality to think about time travel, you will inevitably fall into a dead loop of space-time paradox.
For example, why save humanity on Earth? It's because in the future, humans will help place wormholes; Why can people in the future place wormholes? It's because humans on Earth have been saved and multiplied into high-dimensional civilizations.
According to this approach, the causal chain of a movie is like a "M ö bius loop" that cannot be clarified at all.
I say this because although it is a logically tight closed loop, due to its low dimensionality, we can only see the projection of this logical chain. I mentioned at the beginning that ants can only see the flat circular projection of a sphere.
Since we consider this to be an unsolvable loop, there is always a paradox of time and space in movies for us. The deeper I think about it, the more I feel that this movie is built on a bug. On the one hand, this is very contrary to Nolan's professional ethics; On the other hand, not being able to solve difficult problems is really frustrating.
But are these really unsolvable bugs?
You should know that the director focuses on a five dimensional space, not just a simple linear time travel.
If the time in three-dimensional space is an irreversible straight line, then the time in four-dimensional space should be in a plane, and the time in five dimensional space should be in a cubic state.
That is to say, time in the five dimensional space is visible and tangible, and can be freely shaped. For example, a small amount of time in different directions can be stacked into a larger amount of time, and a large amount of time can be split into small pieces and thrown in different directions.
Due to the high-dimensional setting, the entire film cannot apply the three-dimensional rules of causality. We must break out of the three-dimensional thinking mode. As for how to jump out, the director has already made it clear that it is Murphy's Law.
Murphy's Law is the key to understanding the relationship between time and space in movies. Whenever possible, it will happen.
This is a bit like 'fatalism', which is metaphysical in a three-dimensional world but can explain the logic of five dimensional spacetime.
Clarify three points:
1. Three dimensional time is a causal line (not applicable to high-dimensional spacetime). There is no concept of parallel universes in the film. There are no paradoxes in the timeline.
If you want to understand the five dimensional spacetime relationship, then don't trace back to why it happened and what the result was. This is an unsolvable loop. You just need to know that what has happened is what should have happened and what will happen.
For example, when Murphy encountered a ghost as a child, he thought according to the law of linear causality, which was easy to understand. The protagonist Cooper traveled to the future and sent a message to his daughter from the past.
This is wrong because no matter in which dimension, humans cannot change history. Although Murphy had seen people from the future when he was a child, it was a part of history.
This has happened in the past, so it is inevitable in the future, so it should have happened from the beginning.
For future humans, what they are doing is not changing history, but doing what they should do based on what has happened in history.
The reason why future people can achieve this is that high-dimensional humans can see the past and future of low dimensional humans, just like writers can see the life trajectory of characters. The screenwriter wanted to make a change by placing a key event at a certain point, which changed the direction of the entire trajectory.
For example, in movies, humans threatened by diseases can be seen as ants in a desperate situation. If the stream floods the ant nest, the ants can only wait to die. At this point, an ordinary human discovered it and diverted it directly, allowing the ants to move smoothly. In the eyes of ants, this human is a high-dimensional life form.
Although the future of ants has been changed, humans have not changed history itself.
In the five dimensional space, there is no temporal order or causal relationship, so the question of how ants become human causal relationships is meaningless in the five dimensional space.
There is no setting of parallel time and space in the movie.
In order to understand the spatiotemporal paradox caused by the law of causality, many people tend to think from the perspective of parallel spacetime.
Parallel spacetime is somewhat similar to Gnosticism. Borges pointed out in "Circular Ruins" that the cosmological model is an infinite extension of several axes, and the origin can be at any position.
The paradox of spacetime can be explained by the concept of parallel spacetime. But in reality, the director of 'Interstellar' did not establish the existence of parallel spacetime, nor did he involve infinite derivative spacetime.
Moreover, based on the content of the film, it is completely unnecessary for humans to save their parallel spacetime in the future, just like exponentially dividing cells do not have to cling to their mother cells.
The story of 'Interstellar' only takes place in a single 'field', where both the five dimensions and the three dimensions belong to the same 'field'.
Comprehensive and detailed analysis
In addition to the space-time paradox mentioned above, there are many small details worth reading in Interstellar.
Why does the airplane keep spinning in space in the movie?
Simulate the Earth's gravity by utilizing the centripetal force generated by rotation.
During the rotation of the spacecraft, such an inertial centrifugal force is precisely generated. According to the 'equivalence principle' of general relativity, inertial centrifugal force can replace gravity. In the film, it is claimed that rotation can cause the spacecraft to generate gravity similar to the surface of the Earth, making astronauts feel flat in space. "
For interstellar navigation, gravity is not only a comfortable need, but also a matter of life and health. Long term weightlessness will inevitably lead to problems such as muscle atrophy and osteoporosis in astronauts, so it is necessary to create "artificial gravity".
Why did the old professor think it was impossible to obtain black hole data, and why did the male protagonist not die after entering the black hole?
According to Hawking's theory, even a person approaching a black hole will be torn apart by the black hole's supergravity. However, in Kipson's view, we only confirmed a black hole through infinite data, and in reality, there is no way to know what a black hole is. So Kipson's black hole theory, in the end, both the male protagonist and the robot TARS survived.
What happened to the old professor's formula? Why did he tell a huge lie before he died?
Due to a severe wilt disease on Earth, in order to avoid extinction, humans need to leave Earth and search for new habitable planets in the universe. The old professor made two plans regarding this. Plan A aims to take all humanity away from Earth and send them to other habitable planets for survival. Plan B, the astronauts who went out to find a habitable planet will never come back. The human fertilized eggs they carry will start a new life on other planets, leaving humans on Earth to fend for themselves. Plan A is certainly the best choice, but to achieve it, a huge problem needs to be solved, which is how to transfer all humanity to space.
The gravity anomaly that occurred many years ago caught the attention of the old professor, who realized that gravity can be controlled. If gravity could be controlled, sending all humanity and a massive space station into space would not be a problem. This old professor has been studying the equation of gravity. After years of effort, he finally solved half of the equation.
Because quantum mechanics and relativity cannot be reconciled, this gravitational equation cannot be used yet. It requires internal data of the black hole and knowledge of singularities to fully solve the equation. But the event horizon of a black hole separates the spacetime inside and outside the black hole, prohibiting external observers from seeing the interior of the black hole. The singularity at the center of a black hole will not be exposed in spacetime. The inability to obtain internal data of a black hole means that the gravitational equation cannot be fully solved, thus making it impossible to control gravity.
Old Professor Brand had long known about this matter, but he concealed it from everyone. He claimed that he would be able to completely solve this equation soon. As long as he finds a habitable planet, humans can quickly move there. He knew it was unrealistic for humans to unite and sacrifice themselves and their families to save others, so he told a huge lie to everyone.
From beginning to end, Plan A is impossible to implement, it's just a facade. The old professor chose to annihilate his own humanity and attempted to use Plan B to continue humanity in the universe, which almost no one knew except for Dr. Mann, who had previously set out to search for habitable planets.
Of course, it is uncertain whether Plan B will ultimately be implemented. At first, the true purpose of the professor who knew the truth was to execute Plan B, but in fact, he was also skeptical about whether Plan B could be achieved (later, when the professor first met Murphy at the base, he had a hint that "I'm not sure if my daughter is alive or dead, but every time I go to record what I want to say, it makes me feel better and supports me in believing that they are living elderly people"). It's impossible to determine which planet is habitable based on the data sent back, but it's better for my daughter to go on an adventure outside than to die.
But due to the mild singularity of the Kagantuya black hole, Cooper was able to safely enter the black hole and transmit the singularity data to his daughter. In the end, Murphy, who obtained the data inside the black hole, solved the gravity equation based on the research of the old professor, thus saving all mankind.
Why did the space exploration team go to Miller's planet first?
The distance order between the three planets and the black hole is Miller Planet, Mann, and Edmunds. And from the perspective of data transmission, Miller is likely to be livable. When they come out of the wormhole, they will first use the super attraction of the black hole to land on Miller's planet to save fuel. Miller's gravity is 130% that of Earth, making it the closest planet to that black hole. Therefore, it is not difficult to explain why there are such huge waves on that planet, as the traction factor generates large-scale tides.
Why did you choose the planet Man instead of the planet Edmunds?
Firstly, from the signal perspective, the Edmunds signal has been disrupted while the Mann signal continues. Secondly, Mann's resume is even more impressive, so theoretically it is the most reliable. Finally, after the hardships of Miller's planet, the existing fuel was unable to support their exploration of Edmunds and their return to Earth. The male protagonist wanted to reunite with his family. Moreover, from the perspective of the male lead's psychology, the female lead's brand is selfish because his man may still be sleeping. After comprehensive consideration, the planet Mann was ultimately chosen.
Why did V Man kill that person?
Firstly, Mann doesn't want to die. Missing someone is an insurmountable obstacle for humanity. Mann sent false messages to Earth claiming that his planet is habitable, with the aim of requesting that Earth send someone to give him a chance to return. Mann's gravity is 70% of that of Earth, so some glaciers float in mid air, and women who jump from such heights won't twist their ankles.
As for Mann, why did he kill him when he knew he was planning to return to Earth? This is due to heroism. If the male protagonist tells the Earthlings about Mann's fake news in order to survive, he will have no face to live and will not drown in his own breath. So Man planned to go back alone and use one lie to round another lie.
Why was Romilly bombed?
Man's robot Kip, exploring the planetary belt, has real data. In order to cover up her lies, Mann scrapped the robot. And when the robot was scrapped, Mann set a self destruct program (finally, when the person was repairing TARS, TARS joked that the robot had a self destruct program). If Romilly had repaired the robot and had access to real data, he would have died. Human fingerprints can repair robot data, so Romilly pressed her own fingerprint and was blown into the sky.
Why did the Mann spacecraft open the hatch and explode without locking the docking?
Mann's experience in piloting spacecraft is not as good as humans, so the docking failed. There is a constant air pressure inside a spacecraft. If the cabin door is forcefully opened, there will be a pressure difference and excessive pressure.
Why did a man separate the spacecraft when using the gravitational slingshot effect to send a woman out of a black hole? Can't we leave together?
Firstly, there is not enough fuel; Secondly, Newton's third law states that spacecraft need to obtain sufficient kinetic energy by separating the spacecraft's reverse propulsion. But the separation aircraft can only be operated manually (Mann opened the hatch after incomplete docking, which damaged the automatic operating system); Thirdly, black holes are gentle black holes, so it is possible to obtain singularity data and send it back to Earth to save humanity. The owner seized an opportunity to enter the black hole with the robot TASS.
Analyze the plot of the male protagonist leaving his daughter behind, including NASA coordinates and singularity data.
When delivering the news of Stay, the male protagonist believes that Plan A is destined to fail and that all Earthlings will die, so he regrets letting his daughter take the risk.
Later, the male protagonist contacted the robot, and TARS told him to collect black hole data. With these data, Plan A can be implemented. In addition, TARS said that "they" did not make the male lead change history, so the male lead had to send himself to NASA. After all, if he hadn't gone to NASA back then, he wouldn't have been able to achieve Plan A. So the male protagonist passed on NASA's coordinates and the singularity parameters of the black hole to his daughter in the hypercube, just like what happened before.
Did the male protagonist decipher the coordinates of the sand?
Murphy has always believed that there is an invisible person (ghost) in her room transmitting information to her. She tried to decipher the abnormality of the bookshelf using Morse code, but the male owner thought, 'The bookshelf won't come to communicate any information with you.'. On the day of the baseball game, when a sandstorm occurred, the father and daughter witnessed the scene of dust falling in the room at the same time. Afterwards, the man discovered that the anomaly was caused by gravity anomalies, and under Murphy's Morse code prompt, he thought of a binary star system and obtained NASA's geographic coordinates.
Coordinates are represented by sand of different thicknesses, i.e. binary code, with thick lines=1 and thin lines=0. (Not applicable to reality, just a movie expression. Cooper also said to Murphy, 'You guide me (to find this answer),' which made Murphy believe that her father's departure was her own fault. Since the geographic coordinates are useful, the "stay" information she deciphered should also have a clear purpose, so she tried to use this information to prevent the male protagonist from leaving.
-What is the gravity anomaly on Earth?
Men attempt to correspond reasonable errors before and after the Earth's timeline in the hypercube. Due to the flat nature of the timeline, its impact on the movement of the watch hands is likely to spill over to other time points, resulting in frequent gravitational anomalies in the recent timeline.
Interpretation of the meaning of drones and others
The role of drones at the beginning of the film:
1. Explain the background, the space agency has been dissolved for 10 years;
2. Suspense male identity (currently not on), high-end tech man;
3. Implies that there is a gravity anomaly near the male lead's home.
The metaphor of drones:
The man and his two children drove to school and discovered an Indian drone. The person grabbed it, took out its battery, and when Murphy said these words with an unhappy expression——
Can't we just forget about it?
Can't we just forget about it?
In fact, the drone represents the male protagonist himself. At that time, the ground control center had already been closed, and the drone had been silently flying for 10 years. No one knows. If it weren't for the male lead, it might have flown forever.
Drones are lonely, helpless, searching for something, romantic and desolate. Murphy has some sympathy for a lifeless machine, but reality is cold and helpless.
The same applies to human space exploration. They are also searching, and they are also very lonely. After they passed through the wormhole, there was no news from them. According to Earth time, they spent 23 years on Miller planet alone.
People only know that they are flying deep in the universe, but they don't know what happened. Over time, the male lead Cooper became a memory.
In the video message, my son Tom also said:
I think I'll let you go
This is an important implication that echoes Murphy's previous words.
Faced with reality (they may have been killed long ago and never come back), the Earthlings had no choice but to let them go. In this structure, the fate of the male protagonist Cooper coincides with the drone, which is a metaphor for the male protagonist himself.
The metaphor of the Lazarus Plan;
The space exploration activities of the male party are referred to as Lazarus by the old professor. Lazarus is a character recorded in the Bible who died and was resurrected. He has already died, but Jesus claims that he will be resurrected. Four days later, he really walked out of the cave, proving the miracle of Jesus.
Resurrection from death is a metaphor, the person who enters the black hole will survive, and the last human will survive.
The metaphor of three planets:
Miller Planet: This planet has a greater gravity than Earth, a thin atmosphere, and the entire surface is covered by water. This is a hint of the ancient Earth before the birth of life.
Man Planet: High ammonia content in the atmosphere, frozen surface, indicating that the Earth returned to the Ice Age after its destruction.
The planet Edmunds: the perfect planet that humans have painstakingly found for survival and has not been destroyed. That is to say, even if humans can travel through stars and find planets suitable for human survival in hundreds of billions of galaxies, they still need to go through the most suitable stage. What harsh conditions can be matched?
Metaphor/code language: When we live on this planet, any destruction we do will gradually make this home disappear. The possibility of finding alternatives is very low, so cherish our planet.
What do people become obsessed with when they are obsessed with science fiction movies?
Because science and technology are based on irrefutable and abstract scientific principles, most people can only see from afar through barriers, and it is difficult for them to step into them for a lifetime.
Science fiction has broken down this barrier and built a bridge between the public and the difficult to understand and unfamiliar mysteries of science.
And the reed like humans, however, try to challenge the huge unknown with their own weak fate, hoping to gaze upon the other shore from this shore. When a distant existence stands in front of us, people cannot help but feel a sense of detachment, like being suffocated in the desolation of time and space, and falling into a long sense of loss.
#What are people obsessed with when they are obsessed with science fiction movies?
I think in addition to intuitive aesthetic feelings, such as the disillusionment of history, the insignificance of fate, and the passage of time, there are deeper things, such as cold steel armor and ruthless technological monsters, those soft and warm human nature, and the light of hope in dire straits.
Excellent science fiction novels make people feel the grandeur of topics such as the universe and life, allowing them to temporarily withdraw from the mundane life and look up at the stars (doubts and reflections on life)