When I saw
the movie Interstellar I must say I wasn’t expecting the direction and ending
that the film took… at all. I walked into the theater hoping for an
entertaining film that had some cool science and ideas in it, all the while
taking place in space, which I love.
Also being a
huge fan of Matthew McConaughey I would get to enjoy that bit as well. But then
the interesting themes started to emerge and I was even more impressed. If you
haven’t seen the movie Interstellar and you want to watch it without any
spoilers, I would stop reading this post now so that you don’t ruin anything
for yourself.
For those
who don’t know, Interstellar is a film that follows humanity’s final efforts to
find a new habitable place after the earth was seriously damaged by an
environmental catastrophe. Matthew McConaughey plays a former NASA
pilot-turned-corn-farmer who discovers coordinates to a top secret government
project. After finding the hidden base, he’s brought in on the covert project
whose goal is to send a crew through a recently discovered wormhole, in the
hopes that humankind can find a new habitable planet in another galaxy.
There have
been a number of theories about the meaning of the film’s ending, as it left
many people scratching their heads. “Why did it take that turn?” “What does it
mean?” “Did he die?”
Some have
enjoyed the ending, while others were turned off by it. Either way, the
conversations happening around this film are exciting to me, especially running
a website that is all about consciousness, cool science, and new ways of
looking at things - things are changing! People are becoming more interested in
these types of ideas and consciousness-provoking content. I remember just a few
years ago when you mentioned the word consciousness or dimension, people
thought it was all just “woo-ey” talk, but now it’s so much more widely
accepted and understood. I think this is promising given the shifts in
perspectives that are taking place and the implications they could have on how
we view our world and our way of living here.
Neil
deGrasse Tyson offers an interesting explanation through his expertise in
physics as to what the ending of Interstellar means and how it’s possible when
you begin factoring in other dimensions. Simply imagine looking at your life as
a timeline that has already happened and you are at a higher dimension able to
look down at it.
You can jump
in at any point you like and experience it, because from the space you exist in
this other dimension time doesn’t apply to you in the same way it does to the
physical reality we experience today.
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