1. The nature of time reset and the means to achieve it.
2. Why does Omega explode after the last time reset.
3. Explain as many details as possible in the film.
4. As a science fiction movie, can it be self-consistent when compared with known existing scientific knowledge.
The most important thing for time reset is the blue liquid-Alpha and Omega body fluids. The film provides the following evidence:
1. The male protagonist gained the ability to reset the time after obtaining this blue liquid.
2. Both Alpha and Omega have this blue liquid, so they have the ability to reset the time. The gray aliens and ordinary humans do not have this liquid, and therefore do not have the ability to reset time.
A very important part of time reset is the transmission of memory, otherwise the tactical significance of time reset will be lost. The video introduces this point very clearly.
Memory itself is a kind of information, and information needs a carrier. The form of different permutations and combinations of carriers determines the content of the information, such as the establishment of neural circuits in your brain, or the arrangement of magnetic domains in computer hard disks.
Under the film system, the carrier of memory is this blue liquid. It was not the flesh that was passed back to the past, but the blue liquid that recorded the information. So after the male protagonist’s resets, the physical body is the same, that is, the body in the past. If you shoot the scene at that time every time you reset, even including every cell of the male protagonist, there won’t be any It's different, because it was originally the male protagonist of the past. But if you can photograph the blue liquid in the male subject, the shape of the blue liquid in the male subject will be different after each reset, which is the same as the shape of the blue liquid in the male subject before the reset. of. If the blue liquid in the body of the male protagonist died last time was a donut, the shape of the blue liquid in the male body after resetting is also a donut; and the last time the male protagonist died, the blue liquid in the body was a donut. The liquid form is a bow, and the blue liquid form in the male body after the last reset is also a bow. This form records all memories, because each reset memory is different, so the form is naturally different. Of course, the bow tie and the donut are just an exaggerated comparison. The real situation may be that the ripples in the blue liquid are slightly different, but it is enough to carry the memory.
Blue liquid has the following characteristics:
1. High energy density.
Therefore, after the Omega explosion, human detection methods can detect huge energy fluctuations at a long distance. The volume of Omega itself is not large, and the blue spherical shape of Omega shows that its main component is this blue liquid, so the energy density of this blue liquid is very large.
2. The form of the blue liquid records the memory of the body where the dead individual lodged before death.
So when the male protagonist was infected with this fluid for the first time, those fluids recorded the memory of the male protagonist instead of the memory of the killed Alpha. After passing it back to the past, it also appeared in the male protagonist's body.
But the actual situation is often more complicated. When the male protagonist kills Alpha for the first time and infects the blue liquid, only part of the blue liquid actually enters the male protagonist's body. At this time, the blue liquid in Alpha's body is divided into two parts: one part remains in the original Alpha's body, and the shape is A; the other part enters the male protagonist's body, and the shape becomes B according to the memory of the male protagonist. After the time was reset, the blue liquid of form A and the blue liquid of form B were passed back intact.
Similarly, after the final Omega was severely injured, the form of the blue liquid remaining in the Omega's body was C, and a part of the blue liquid entered the male main body. According to the memory of the male protagonist, the form changed to D. Both the blue liquid of form C and the blue liquid of form D were passed back intact to a certain point in the past.
3. The blue liquid is an interconnected whole. It is clearly stated in the movie that Omega is equivalent to the brain and Alpha is equivalent to the nerve. The two are connected through the blue liquid. When the blue liquid in the body feels Alpha's death, through this association, Omega is stimulated to reset the time and pass itself back to the past in the form of this moment. Also through this connection, Omega can make the male protagonist produce illusions. Because Omega only needs to change the form of the blue liquid in the male protagonist through this association, and this form is connected with memory, it is logical to make the male protagonist produce a phantom (equivalent to let the male protagonist produce a false memory).
Generally speaking, fluids with high energy density are unstable in many forms. For example, under known technological conditions, the fluid with high energy density that can be obtained is plasma, which is called plasma in Taiwan and Plasmas in English. At the same time, the particles in plasma (or plasma) are long-range related, which is similar to blue liquid. So the blue liquid should be a fluid similar to plasma, we will call it blue paste later.
The movie specifically mentions that the old scientist is a "particle physics and microbiologist". Why do we need to mention particle physics separately? Because this liquid is originally a kind of plasma, and the old scientists who understand the theory of particle acceleration must understand the properties of plasma.
Regarding the instability of plasma. The most difficult problem in controllable nuclear fusion that needs to be broken through is the stability of this high-energy-density fluid. The outer wall of general equipment (such as tokamak) plays a very small role in confining this fluid. The main method is to confine the energy with energy (magnetic energy). Once this fluid has a certain disturbance and enters an unstable form, the instability will rapidly increase and the constraint will fail.
In the movie, although Omega also has a petal-like shell on its appearance, this shell should play a very small role in constraining blue pulp, a high-energy density fluid. It mainly depends on the energy distribution of the main body of Omega, the blue pulp itself. It is in a stable form. This stable form is very afraid of encountering big disturbances, so Omega hides in various secluded places.
Alpha or male subjects have very little blue paste and are relatively easy to restrain, but they still cannot encounter major disturbances, such as blood transfusions.
One more thing to note is that it takes a certain amount of time for Omega to reset the time itself. The evidence is that when the hero kills an Alpha for the first time, the time is not reset immediately, but after a short while, the time is reset after the hero has been infected with blue paste.
So what happened before the last time reset?
The male protagonist threw the grenade into Omega's body. Omega was blown to death. Blue Pulp felt the host's death and immediately started to activate the time reset mechanism, waiting for the time to reset. At this time, most of the blue pulp is still in the Omega body, in the form of C.
A small part of the blue pulp enters the male main body. According to the memory of the male main body, the form becomes D.
Because of the huge disturbance caused by the explosion of the grenade, the C form of a large amount of blue paste is in an unstable state.
A large amount of blue paste in form C and a small amount of blue paste in form D were transmitted to the time point when the male protagonist was on the plane. The blue paste in form C reached the Omega body at that time, and the blue paste in form D reached the male protagonist at that time.
Form C is unstable, so Omega explodes very quickly, and humans detect huge energy fluctuations.
The blue paste in the D form records the memory of the male protagonist and makes the encounter come again.
There is also a slightly different possible explanation: the role of blue pulp is 1, it carries memory in the shuttle of time, and 2, it acts as a medium for information transmission, which is equivalent to nerves. The restart time is not the blue pulp, but the petal-shaped body shell of Omega. When Alpha dies, the blue syrup as a nerve transmits information to the blue syrup (brain) in Omega's body, and the blue syrup in Omega's body transmits the information to the petal-shaped body shell, restarting time. However, there is no big difference between the two theories, and the film does not provide enough details to identify the true situation.
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