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‘Interstellar’ Ending & Space Travel ExplainedPublished 5 days ago by Ben Kendrick , Updated November 12th, 2014 at 10:30 am,

Interstellar follows humanity’s last-ditch effort to find a new habitable planet –after Earth is ravaged by environmental catastrophe. When former NASA pilot-

turned-corn farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) finds the coordinates to a top

secret government project, he’s 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

save the remaining people on Earth, Cooper must leave his own family behind – and

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, we’re here to help breakdown how space travel works in

the movie, as well as explain Interstellar ‘s ending. Our discussion is going to be fullof SPOILERS for Interstellar , so READ NO FURTHER unless you’re 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

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 ast ronauts was to set up a beacon –

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

make an informed decision regarding which planet provides the best hope for

humanity.

Should the Endurance team find a habitable planet, Brand claims that NASA has two

plans for humanity’s survival:

Plan A) While the Endurance team is away, Brand will continue to work on anadvanced equation that, if solved, will allow humans to harness fi fth-

dimensional physics – specifically gravity. Should Brand succeed, NASA will be

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

space station (carrying the remainder of Earth’s surviving population) into

space. The very facility that Cooper and Murph stumble upon at the beginning

of the film isn’t just a NASA research station – it’s a construction site for

humankind’s 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 humanity’s 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

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

building the necessary infrastructure to ensure that, unknown to anyone but him,

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 Amelia’s

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 crew’s 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 Brand’s

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

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TARS! Nice question… The scene book ends the movie doesn’t it. Which provides ammo for the

death dream proponents.

It does suggest a deadly ending.

Batan 2 days ago

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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

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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Darius 1 day ago

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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.

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.

Alexroxx 2 days ago

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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.

Cassius83 2 days ago

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Rene 1 day ago

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Martin 1 day ago

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That’s a good question, probably the found out that it was more convenient for mankind to

leave the planet than remain there.

Yunus 1 day ago

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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

Papaquinn 1 day ago

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

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?!!

The paradox is simple. Plan B worked giving humans a chance to build the Tesseract and also

knowing the history of Cooper’s mission due to Emilia starting the colony. It probably took them

much longer to discover how to manipulate gravity and obviously cost everyone’s lives on Earth, so

‘they’(we)found it necessary to try and go back in time to help Cooper and make sure plan 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 oppos ite is

true – if they coulda, they woulda. To Nolan, the only option is to vacate the Earth long

enough for it to heal itself.

Nolan’s other theme is that it’s 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 Saturn’s 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 Blackhole’s singularity, thereby

ensuring the species continual existence (in a time loop at least).

Mauricio 22 hours ago

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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.

Rene 1 day ago

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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 you’re 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 you’d need cause

and effect and chronology.

InfoWarsDotCom 1 day ago

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

prospace 1 day ago

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Neither plan would exist if the wormhole wasn’t 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, It’s a circular

paradox.

Patob 13 hours ago

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

leave earth?

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??

Gaurav 2 days ago

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Brandon 1 day ago

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Gaurav 1 day ago

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Thanks a lot Brandon

You are awesome :). Thank you for that, I’ll 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 doesn’t understand the science, or even a scientist who

doesn’t understand the story…

Hi, I am a Physics student from IIT in Belgium and a big Nolan fan. Watch out my review on

Interstellar:)

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InfoWarsDotCom 1 day ago

But, that’s why it’s 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 can’t 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.

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.

I think I’ve got it! The paradox is not to be solved but rather looked at differently. It’s 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

hadn’t 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.. I’ve 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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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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I think I’ve got it! The paradox is not to be solved but rather looked at differently. It’s 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 hehadn’t 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.. I’ve gone cross-eyed..The bottom line is a paradox can always be solved if one has the

power to manipulate or travel through

Cassius83 1 day ago

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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. It’s a narrow minded

view of how the universe really works and exists..

IngaMit 1 day ago

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Brandon 1 day ago

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No it’s 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.

Can someone please explain to me…who sent the coordinates to Copper? We know he sent “stay”

message. I got an impression that he didn’t send the coordinates to himself because he was yelling

“stay at himself” while on the 5 dimensional time

Arnab 1 day ago

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Wonderful explanation… real food for thought

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?

I’ve come to the conclusion that “they” are the “human embryos” that have grown up on Edmund’s

planet. Okay, so here’s 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 doesn’t crash it.

Impressed with his skills, NASA details him about the mission: Interstellar and that point there’s

only Plan B. However, Cooper’s wife has just died and he has to look after his kids and tells no as

it’s too much of a risk. The 13 scientists are sent as probes and one of them accidentally discover a











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Stollz 1 day ago

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Im afraid not, because the wormhole they accidentally discover is not there by chance, it is also

placed there by the future humans.

Leonard Bauer 4 hours ago

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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..

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 Edmund’s

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 it’s 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 it’s 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 o ld 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. Cooper’s is to

die inside the blackhole, Dr.Brand’s to convince the people to undergo the mission no matter what

(Reason for him lying), Murph’s destiny to solve the equation, Amelia and Edmund’s love is

remembered beyond time and space as Amelia’s mission is to find Edmund’s planet with embryos

and Edmund’s 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 Earth’s 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 Cooper’s

destiny to die in the wormhole.

6. First things first, they place a tesseract inside the singularity of the wormhole that appearednaturally 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 Edmund’s planet instead of

Dr.Mann’s (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 don’t 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?

Lady Kaede 1 day ago

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It is a lovely chart . . . but the object labeled ‘Black Hole’ should be labeled ‘Worm Hole.’ (Gargantua

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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

Edmond’s planet –> Plan B humans created wormhole in future –> Wormhole appeared

If the Plan B humans created the wormhole in the future, then it couldn’t 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, it’s 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 acrosstime 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. That’s 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.

We’re 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 existedliterally 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 couldn’t have appeared because

humans hadn’t gotten to Edmund’s planet yet makes sense from a four-dimensional perspective:

but the humans weren’t 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 isn’t a one-way street or linear concept,

time is nonlinear and multidimensional with no beginning and end, it always was and always is.

Apply Romilly’s 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 Edmund’s 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 don’t 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 I’d say

the alien theory makes the most sense, but the human theory is still plausible, and I don’t know

about the wormhole accidentally appearing (I read somewhere that that’s impossible).

Again remember that all of this is complete speculation, I don’t know anything about space or

physics and I’m just going off stuff I’ve read on the internet and saw in the movie. And the

movie is sci-fi, so it’s not necessarily meant to be taken literally: none of this has been proven,

and that’s the whole point of sci-fi: we don’t know if it’s possible, but it’s the imagination,

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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Jon 22 hours ago

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I must say – very interesseting reading!

Julie 7 hours ago

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Great read! Thank you for taking time to write this. It just makes me think of the movie with a

whole new perspective and I’m mind blown, yet again!

Ash less than a minute ago

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I don’t 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.

creativity and fascination with the unknown that makes it interesting.

Pete 1 day ago

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It’s “burn and rave at close of day”. Not ” burn and rage..”

Maddoxx 1 day ago

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so in the end..

Murph brought human kind to where?

Cooper s tation floating around at the galaxy or another planet?

Thanks

shrwan 1 day ago

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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

FICTION…not science fact…so 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/interstellar-

movie-plot-holes-science-christopher-nolan/) He clearly states in this interview ” I know where we

i’m 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 murph’s bedroom? it’s

like nolan saying “cause i said so” but we need more than that.it’s not religion to go by faith.it’s

science.if nolan comes out and says “yes,i didn’t 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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InfoWarsDotCom 18 hours ago

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Haha…I don’t think anyone is trying to say Interstellar is a lying documentary…it’s 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.

cheated in the way you have to cheat in movies, and I’ve 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 isn’t 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 don’t have the complete knowledge of? it makes no sense. *I’m also

confused by your “it’s not religion to go by faith. it’s science” because going by faith is exactly

what religion is.” *btw…I’m agonistic lol

Kevin 19 hours ago

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It’s fiction man, relax.

Matt C 1 day ago

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My buddy and I disagreed about this, but I don’t 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 poss ible outcome or variation to exist. In Cooper’s 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.

Kindren 1 day ago

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I think you got the time thing wrong in this case. It wasn’t 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 t ime 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 earth’s 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 aren’t 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.










Kindren 1 day ago

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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 1st-

4th). 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.

daygobah 1 day ago

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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 problykicking himself now.

The effects looked great good camera work and editing. The story with the future humans crap just

made it suck so bad.

iwonder 1 day ago

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Brandon 1 day ago

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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 don’t have many other options you’d 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 wasn’t that safe. how could they have known it was an all water planet?

Still, you’re right…not the best choice lol. I would’ve 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/wasn’t 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 didn’t know where the story was about to go, which is great

when movies can do that.

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

there’s no problem to overcome there’s 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.

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Jared 1 day ago

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TroyWilliams 21 hours ago

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The “They” is God, God is Love, Humans are the only beings that can express and understand

love…its wired in us.

If you were to take the flesh away from humans you’d 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 i’m saying in regards to the movie is that its much simpler yet complex at the same time.

We…the human race…Are 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.

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.

Bob 21 hours ago

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Andy 20 hours ago

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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 can’t 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.

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

patrick 17 hours ago

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

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how was he able to set her watch by touching beams. don’t get it.

bucknasty 16 hours ago

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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 could…end up on the mission?

jim 9 hours ago

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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

Gautam Goswami 7 hours ago

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Fanman 6 hours ago

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We saw Cooper push the books, we saw him place the coordinates and manipulate the Murph’s

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 flightcrash happen? (NASA explained it wasn’t his error but a gravitational nudge, much like the books

on the bookshelf) Who nudged the satellites to see the wormhole? (Again, NASA admitted they’d

bern contacted by gravitational nudges in this manner) Is this proof that Amelia went into the

black hole at some point? As Coop would’ve been limited to his daughter’s 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

couldn’t other communication? How could Coop “shake” Amelia’s hand in wormhole when our

future self and present self or future/present self can’t coexist with our past self at the same

time?

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 !!

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 we’re 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 film’s.

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

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COOP 51 minutes ago

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*his

[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 Edmund’s planet.

But couldn’t 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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