10 Interstellar Theories That Are Totally Insane

5. It€™s All About Time

All the way throughout Interstellar, the characters rather belabour the point that the film is grounded in actual science. That means, even when they€™re clearly talking about classic silly sci-fi tropes like time travel, they€™re actually talking about the manipulation of gravity outside of three dimensions and travelling through wormholes and the theory of relativity and stuff. Except that, despite all of their protestations, Interstellar is totally all about time. In fact, it€™s the most important aspect, and arguably more powerful than that mushy love stuff they eventually settle on. Gravity isn't the only thing that can bleed through into other dimensions. Our human conception of time can transcend our basic levels of perception and exist out of the linear form it appears to your layman, which is exactly what Cooper witnesses with all that trippy wireframe stuff inside the tesseract. So whilst gravity is important in terms of him being able to manipulate books falling off shelves and dust falling in a certain way, it€™s actually the manipulation of time that saves humanity: he gets his message back early, he manages to live to the ripe old age of 100+ without seeming to have aged a day, and (presumably) he€™ll use a similar trick to get to Brand before she€™s a wrinkled bag of bones, too.
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