antovolk wrote:Also remember that line from McC that NO one understood from that clip in response to Anne's "what makes you think I'm not"?

"nowhere near as cute"

CoRohr wrote:

braungeo123 wrote:

slimshady247 wrote:Yes to which?

I mean, I'm just confused as to how he could be in the tesseract causing things to happen even though all that time has passed and he's in the tesseract after those things are already supposed to have happened.

The point is that it is a loop. They always happened, and they always will happen. That's why we see the "ghost" at the beginning of the film before we know Cooper is the ghost. Cooper at that point does not know that he is the one that caused these events until he steps outside time and does so. Time is not a beginning, middle, and end as we perceive it. It is just moments that have always existed and will always exist.

so was murph already old, assumed to have failed to figure out the equation at the moment Coop enter the black hole, since there was a time dilation of 50-70 years from being so close to it. This all changed however when he entered the tesseract and gave murph the necessary information

swishbig wrote:What is life?

"No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man¹s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.

Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.

This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward."

Ok, now you all have me re-evaluating whether I truly understand what I thought I had come to understand

So even though Murph was

Ellen Burstyn's age when Cooper entered the black hole, Coop effectively re-wrote the events of time subsequent to his leaving earth to the point where Murph has succeeded in solving the equation and saving humanity by the corresponding point in time that Cooper enters the black hole?

LOL, does that make any sense?

CoRohr wrote:

braungeo123 wrote:

slimshady247 wrote:Yes to which?

I mean, I'm just confused as to how he could be in the tesseract causing things to happen even though all that time has passed and he's in the tesseract after those things are already supposed to have happened.

The point is that it is a loop. They always happened, and they always will happen. That's why we see the "ghost" at the beginning of the film before we know Cooper is the ghost. Cooper at that point does not know that he is the one that caused these events until he steps outside time and does so. Time is not a beginning, middle, and end as we perceive it. It is just moments that have always existed and will always exist.

so was murph already old, assumed to have failed to figure out the equation at the moment Coop enter the black hole, since there was a time dilation of 50-70 years from being so close to it. This all changed however when he entered the tesseract and gave murph the necessary information