One day in the middle of the cave, thousands of years in the world

Selina 2022-10-23 15:35:58

This seemingly crude low-budget film gave me such an inspiration:

Once different time scales can coexist and can pass through this setting, time becomes an intuitive and visible dimension, and history can be regarded as an intuitive aspect. Here, time also becomes a problem of space. The setting gives us the possibility of a perspective that can improve a dimension, so all the nonsense plots in this movie are just a running account story.

Plato's "cave metaphor" told a shocking story from the two-dimensional world to the three-dimensional world. Yes, this film uses the cave as a symbol for this purpose: it is about another from three-dimensional to four-dimensional. shocking story. Why I say shock, because it is about the dimensional upgrading of ideas.

What is this four-dimensional world like? This brings us back to a further question: Is the issue of time inherently a matter of space? You can think of space as a four-dimensional dimension. Time is a real, intuitive and concrete dimension. However, in our normal view of space and time, because the time dimension expands in one direction and is irreversible, it is necessary to separate time from the other three spatial dimensions. Treat differently. Therefore, our ability to imagine space only stops in three dimensions. Space is a concrete three-dimensional that can be freely grasped, and time is an abstract one-dimensional that cannot be grasped and irreversible.

However, once the two time scales with disparity in speed and slow progress are crossed, the slow time side becomes the historical sample collector on the fast time side: the differences between the Stone Age, the Great Voyage Age, the Western Cowboy Age, the Information Age and the Martian Age in the movie Human beings are all intruders who accidentally crossed over in one day on the slow time side. Different humans on the fast time side with a span of tens of thousands of years performed Guan Gong and Qin Qiong together on the same stage on the slow time side. Not unusual.

From the perspective of the slow side, it is not unfinished to develop a snake-like robot that saves its companions in a short while on the fast side. It can even be said to be inevitable, because the time cost of the fast side is extremely cheap for the slow side. and negligible. Because the fast side can always be slow and round, and time can change space.

Looking at the tens of thousands of years of history on the fast side from the slow side is like appreciating a painting. At a certain moment, the viewer looks at some kind of individual object "on the opposite side", that is, life and death, life and death... Any person or thing on the opposite side, you can always see the end of his "life" and "death" The end of "" appeared "simultaneously" in a short period of time. "Baby" and "senior" were born on the same face. Is this the most intuitive four-dimensional object existence? In other words, looking at the "dependent origin and cessation" of the human world from a four-dimensional "God's perspective" is different from our observation of objects of the same dimension, because the time of the "opposite" is intuitive and concrete, and the history of the "opposite" is vivid. A section like an annual ring.

One day in the middle of the cave, the world has been thousands of years... Maybe the truth of traditional Chinese fairyland legends is like this: four-dimensional experience, instant life and death, origin and death, the perspective of God looking back at the "mortal world" from the "immortal world"...

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Time Trap quotes

  • Taylor: None of this was supposed to happen. You went looking for someone who went missing while he was looking for someone else that went missing.

  • [last lines]

    Furby: What the heck is this place?

    Jackie: Well, it's not quite home, but at least were all together.

    Furby: Together? Like together-together?

    Taylor: Let's get you guys dried off...

    Jackie: No, goof. Come on, I'll show you around. A lot's changed, but... we're kind of a big deal around here.

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