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How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"

Alienating the Audience

CHAPTER

The Illusion of Time

It's kind of like if you created all at once, there is theoretically no reason why it can't just exist. We're experiencing 60 seconds per minute as we move almost geographically through this landscape that is the time space continuum. With the block theory of time, I understand why a consciousness moving through this landscape would create the illusion of time. But if all of the universe were created at the same time, why would there be a continuous relationship between all matter? Why wouldn't it just be random where three seconds ago, Jupiter's over here and the next second it's over here?

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