Interstellar #3 - Time and Gravity as physical dimensions

Here's the second one.

It's difficult (but not impossible) to understand time (or gravity) as a physical dimension, since they're both invisible to our naked eyes and we don't pay much attention to these entities in our daily life. We have 3 physical dimensions that we perceive: length, width and height and 1 invisible dimension "TIME". Let's consider another invisible but a more closer entity around us, AIR. Even though we don't pay much attention to it we know air is always around us. Now let's say we make air visible, let's give air the visibility of water (water is colorless but visible to our naked eyes) what if the air around us is visible to us and it looks and feels like water. By maneuvering our hands through air we can create shapes in it. Make a ball of air and hurl is towards another person, and since air is not affected by gravity this ball will travel through space till it hits another object or encounters another force.

We know that music travels using air as a medium. If air is a visible entity like we discussed then we will be able to see music while its travelling through air. And if, say, we want to share a piece of music we heard, to our friend, we can ball up the music we see in the air around us and flick it over to our friend. He can catch the ball and hence (theoretically) would receive the piece of music we want him to hear. Well all this was simple, but how do you replace time with air from the above example. for that we need to understand time.

Time is divided into three, past, present and future. Now here it gets real tricky. In the movie when cooper travels through the worm hole and finally ends up in Gargantua it's his present time, but inside Gargantua, time is a 4th physical (hence visible) dimension so his past (when Murph was a little girl), his present (floating inside Gargantua) and his "relative to earth" future (Murph has grown up and is as old as her father) are all visible at the same time.

Inside the Gargantua he's said to have reached the singularity. At the point of singularity time cannot exist as we observe from earth. Everything we have experienced with respect to time is present at the same time. On earth time flows only in one direction, but once inside a singularity time does not flow from something or towards anything. It's just present, just like any object which is placed in space will have a height, length and width (3-D). I can imagine Chris asking Kip to explain him how time would appear if viewed as a physical entity, the answer could've been "its present". Everything is present, your past, your future, right from the second you were born to the second you died, everything is present at the same time as physical, observable entities.

Cooper sends a Morse code ("STAY") through one of his physical dimension, gravity, from Gargantua but to an observer (Murph and past cooper) on earth (where there are only 3 visible dimensions) the signal is, first of all received with immense time gap between two alphabets and second of all bent through space-time and appears in 3-D, a book falls from the shelf.

the second signal, with dust and gravity (binary code) is also sent through the same 5th dimension of gravity from Gargantua. Cooper is able to see his past (all his pasts in different views arranged in a grid, like books in a library) right in front of his eyes so he knew that the dust storm would take place in one of grids and he searches and finds it. In this scene we can actually see the 5th dimension of gravity as a visible physical dimension. Now he can modify his physical dimension gravity on Gargantua, just like arranging books in rows and for the observers from earth (3-D) it appears as though the dust is settling itself in columns. The places where the dust failed to settle have less gravity than the ones where dust has formed a column on the ground. This change in gravity pattern is caused by cooper with 5 dimensions, from Gargantua, through time, across space and on earth to be observed in 3 dimensions.

Now for the 3rd signal. the second hand of the Hamilton automatic watch ticks for each second. from earth (where time is invisible) we can see the watch tick once every second but to Cooper, on Gargantua, since time is a 4th physical dimension, he can observe the seconds, which causes the ticking of the watch, as a physical entity through his eyes. Now he reaches out into space and gently plucks these seconds (like you would pluck a guitar or a harp) and on earth the second hand ticks in Morse code for Murph to see.

Okay so we've talked about the visible dimensions inside Gargantua, what about the invisible ones. Time and gravity, which are invisible on earth, are visible inside Gargantua, so, there must also be one or two invisible dimensions. What is that thing that tells Cooper that Murph would understand his signals? Has "Love" been portrayed as the invisible dimension inside the Tesseract?

Interstellar #2 - What happened with "Mann"

First of the two major points that stood out for me in the movie.

Dr. Mann has faked the data he found on the new icy planet and lured endurance and its scientists to land there. When he learns that cooper would be leaving the planet on his shuttle to get back to earth he takes him to a lonely spot and tries to kill him, while talking about how humans have not "yet" evolved enough to put the importance of surviving as a species above saving loved ones (which, in this context, borders on selfish). This emphasizes the fact that humans are the youngest species on the universe (meaning, if there were other species on the universe, aliens, they, as a species, would be more evolved as they've been alive for a longer period than humans). So, the "beings" mentioned every now and then can either be taken for God and Angels or as an alien race which wants to see humans grow and evolve by helping them survive.

Mann portrays the raw human nature which portrays man as being rash and selfish (when he talks about success of the mission and ultimately his glory on achieving it) but still wants to leave his cohorts behind and get out of the icy planet. while cooper is struggling to breathe through the ammonia in the atmosphere, Mann experiences an inner conflict which being human, wants to save his new friend and being a scientist wants not to jeopardize the mission. I imagine scientists going through this conflict every now and then, growing up believing something only to learn and realize that their belief system "could be" wrong. the key word here is "could be" because the biggest, life altering theories one can learn are just that, theories and not hard facts, not yet.

Sso why is the planet so icy. If u want it to be un-inhabitable u could've made it rocky with no water, an atmosphere rich with toxic gases, surface that can explode anytime, I don't know a hundred possible scenarios? and you choose ice. I believe ice shows the cold, unforgiving and non-compassionate nature of humans when it comes to putting their self before others. There's another possible explanation. Americans in general don't like the cold, they prefer warm, sunny days over the cold ones. Is that why an uninhabitable planet came to be an icy surface with frozen clouds and a final settlement camp of humans looks warm and cozy?

Interstellar #1

From the limited knowledge I gained in the past couple years I have been able to understand Interstellar and I would like to impart the knowledge to everyone who's eager to understand the movie. The explanation is in 4 parts: First we learn about the big terms and their meanings, Then we talk about the two major moments in the movie that confused everybody and finally the questions that arise once you've understood what you've seen and an attempt to try and answer them yourself. So in this first post lets see about those big terms.

- Wormholes are a purely theoretical concept which exist only as mathematical equations and in science fiction. They're a shortcut through space-time which enables us to cover greater distances in space. Its highly improbable that a wormhole exists in space that would allow such a travel.

- Black holes are real and they do exist in the observable universe.

*Contrary to popular belief they're not holes in the middle of the universe

*They're not stars that have burst/ exploded and left a gap in the middle of the universe

*A black hole is a star that has expanded beyond a certain critical mass, which resulted in its gravity increasing exponentially and due to such gravitational pull its impossible for anything (including light, the fastest observed wave/particle in the universe) to escape from the surface of it. Since there's no light being emitted from it, it has to appear like a black gap in the middle of the universe (which has been visually imagined in this movie)

- Event Horizon is usually recognized as the space surrounding the black hole. where the pull of gravity is infinity.

- Singularity is a tiny point in space where density of matter is infinity and time didn't exist. It is believe that the universe came to be, from such a singularity.

-Theory of relativity : Time is relative, the reference of time differs from observer to observer based on the point from where they're observing it. Time is faster for astronauts in orbit and comparatively slower for observers on earth. To understand this concept let's consider an illustration from "The Grand Design" which goes like this.

(this example is not to be confused over the train example for inertia) : person A is bouncing a ball while travelling on an airplane, when the ball hits the ground and bounces back, for an observer inside the plane (A) the ball has not traveled any distance over time. It has just gone down and bounced back to his hand. But for an observer on the ground (person B) watching the ball bounce inside the plane, when the ball went down and bounced back up it has travelled from position x --> y over time. So the flow of time appears different for every observer based on the point of observation.

- And finally, gravity stretches time through space. If you're on an object in space that exerts high gravity like a black hole, for an observer on the black hole time runs at the same speed as before entering it, but for an observer from outside the black hole, time stretches and expands and hence appears to have moved faster (and hence have run longer) with reference to the person on the black hole. 

Puzzles

If you ask me to define a woman, I won't say she has more estrogen(E), no, she just has less testosterone(T). If having more estrogen makes you crazy and beautiful at the same time, then maybe the less testosterone is what makes you tough and soft, weak and strong and all the other crap that we cannot understand about you.

I'd like to think the same is true for men. If the higher T makes us more violent, the lesser E is what brings out the human side to us. So if you think about it, its a synchronized dance of sorts. E & T in perfect balance.

But if you think more about it, there is a chance that 'compatibility' with your partner is finding the % of E/T that you lack, in them. Or simply put, find the right kind of crazy, who you feel comfortable being crazy with. Much like puzzle pieces, having tabs and blanks. Find the right piece that you would fit with perfectly.

Most often you end up with the piece that seems to fit you. There might be a small misfit at one corner or little discomfort in the fit. We tend to look over these minor defects, but only till the rest of puzzle locks itself together. Once the big picture gets more clearer, we let go of the misfit and settle down at our right place, waiting for all the other pieces to fall in together.

Sometimes we look for it sometimes we carry on with the rest of the puzzle. But that perfect fit will somehow find its way to you. It could be in the near future or it could be the final piece, but the puzzle is never complete without it.

Btw, what about the puzzle pieces having all tabs or all blanks? my God what was I thinking. Puzzles were a bad example. But then again, if you take a puzzle piece having all blanks or all tabs, its not always easy to find the right matching piece, but not impossible either. 

Cheers !