One of my favourite movies is Groundhog Day (1993), which has a well-deserved 8.0 in IMDb. Actor Bill Murray struggles against the SpaceTime dimension as he wakes up every day and relives his previous day. Slowly he realises that he can change the course of that day’s events. This same plot has been used in a 2017 Netflix comedy, the Good Place (7.8 in IMDb).
In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted in the General Theory of Relativity “a universe in which space and time were dynamic” (NYT). In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to 3 scientists for their “discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves” (NYT). They proved that Albert Einstein’s predictions, of 102 years ago, were right.
A few days ago, I watched the 2016 movie Arrival (8.0 in IMDb), the best Sci-Fi movie I’ve ever seen thus far. Now I am really curious about the next project of its movie director Denis Villeneuve, being Blade Runner 2049 (9.1 in IMDb at 460 votes). Arrival’s plot uses a most impressive nonlinear timeline narrative. This made me wonder whether we would know if we would relive every day over and over again. Would we realise??
Both the Universe and our human body expand (ie, grow) and age. This seems to be the only “facts” which would contradict a human Groundhog Day. Our ageing suggests that the arrow of time has only 1 direction. Wiki: “The Arrow of Time is a concept developed in 1927 by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington involving the “one-way direction” or “asymmetry” of time. It is an unsolved general physics question.” Note: italic markings by LO.
Future space travel, like in Star Trek, should show that the human bodies of astronauts, and people on Earth, will differ in ageing. Hence, your (grand)child could be older than you when you return from space travel. This SpaceTime concept has already been used in the 2014 movie Interstellar (eg, Top 250 movies in IMDb with 8.6, Wiki).
These “ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves” might explain human phenomena like clairvoyance, déjà vu, dreams (during Sleep), precognition, and so on. Please also see my blog on The 4 levels of Consciousness. The 2016 movie Arrival incorporates these phenomena in a (very) sophisticated way.
In my recent blog on the Time chill factor, I stressed that Time is an invented human concept by the Sumerian civilization (4,500 BC – 1,900 BC) based on the astronomical movements of Earth, Moon and Sun. Hence, day, month, and year. A recent Wired article confirms this view: “Time might only exist in your head. And everyone else’s”.
Both 2014 Interstellar and 2016 Arrival use an intriguing adaptation of the grandfather paradox: The future must help the present else the future will not exist. This requires SpaceTime to be fluid.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, on the discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, is well-deserved.
Ripples (1976) by Genesis
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