This article attempts to interpret the time and space settings in "Endless" from a "scientific" perspective. The reason why the word "science" is in quotation marks is that the film actually has scientific flaws, but it does not hinder its internal logic.
background of a story
Aliens have carved out a territory on Earth and manipulated the lives trapped in it by twisting time and space for fun. The space-time on the territory is infinitely distorted, that is, a closed world line in four-dimensional space-time: no matter which direction an event develops, it will eventually return to the "starting point" in time and space. The two moons in the camp are actually two virtual images of the moon under gravitational lensing. The Territory system will "restart" when the third moon appears in the sky, and the third moon is the real moon, because the real image will only appear when the system restarts. People can freely enter and leave the territory until the system restarts, but if they do not go out before the restart, they will be trapped in it and will never be able to get out. People trapped in it are assigned to repeat their respective loops in multiple subsystems, and there is no intersection between the subsystems, which means that people trapped in different subsystems cannot exchange information.
Several subsystems in the two territories
1 camp
All the people in the camp, the so-called cults (including physicists, beer masters, magic men, giggling men, designer women, drawing women, etc.), in the same subsystem, the spatial scope is the camp, the time period and the The cycle of restarting the parent system of the territory is the same (10 years).
2 Hanged men
The spatial extent is the area surrounded by sticks around his house, and the time period is three hours.
3 Drug addicts and self-immolators
The spatial extent is around their house, and the time period is a week.
4 hit the wall man
The space range is his tent, and the time period is 5 seconds.
5 "Cults" worship aliens as gods, instead of committing suicide, they are rewarded, so their cycle is relatively long; hanged men, drug addicts, self-immolators and men who hit the wall outside the camp are unwilling to be manipulated by aliens to "resist" by committing suicide ”, while being punished so the period is relatively short.
The three brothers did not escape but fell into a loop outside the camp
When the brothers finally drove out, they collided with another car that was driving in, and that car was actually a gravitationally lensed image of themselves, because the system restart had been completed and spacetime had been distorted.
Although the space-time in the territory is distorted, the physical laws in it are still normal, for example, you can grow crops, brew beer, shoot arrows, shoot fire, etc. Therefore, it stands to reason that the car cannot be driven without gas. The fact that the car keeps running without gas suggests that they're stuck in an endless loop from running out of gas to having run out of gas, right on the road where they drive into the camp at the beginning of the film. The cycle is so short because they are punished for wanting to flee, and the cycle is ten years if they stay in the camp. The ultimate fate of the brothers is to drive into eternity on the road leading into the camp.
The real horror of the four films is not in the territory and time and space are twisted
The brothers escaped from their territory ten years ago before the system restarted. According to the rules of the aliens, the loop is not necessary, but the aliens sent them a video tape to lure them back and put them in an infinite loop, which means that the aliens want to play with you. Just play you, even if you follow his rules and escape it can "cheat" to kill you.
The physical flaws of the five films
The space-time distortion is true, just like the Einstein equations that the physicists in the film want to solve, but the space-time distortion is caused by gravity. To form the closed world line in the film requires a super gravitational field. In such a gravitational field Not to mention people, even the earth will be torn apart by gravitational tidal action. For example, the boundary of a black hole is an infinite loop of closed world lines.
Also, the same space-time in this film is closed to those who are trapped in it, but open to those who are not yet trapped. The difference between man and man stops at the molecule, and the laws of physics that work for one man but not for another can only be explained by supernatural forces.
Six I am willing to cycle indefinitely, as long as the cycle is greater than one day. After all, immortality is the only meaning of human existence. If immortality is not possible, human existence is actually meaningless.
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