Also; has anyone made the obvious joke of a "force awakening" in their pants whilst watching the trailer? Because if not, that.

Open polar sea was the theory that sailors could get to the Pacific through the "Northwest Passage", not to North America. To us here in Canada it's pretty much a religion: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Cool. I think it's agree to disagree at this point. The main problem I had with Interstellar's ending I think was that the five dimensional thing didn't explain (in my and some other people's opinion) how it occurred in the first place. It's interesting though to here other people's opinions and theories on how this…

I honestly like how you're thinking in alternate timelines. (Star Trek (2009) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies because of this.) But the theory that altering something in the past causes a separate timeline means that there are infinite universes, and therefore wouldn't be convergent. Stephen Hawking has some…

This suddenly doesn't seem to have anything to do with quantum physics anymore. (Again, see all of my other comments if you want me to tell you why this is not possible.)

I'm not going to argue with you about semantics, but I will say that you should probably go back and read the wiki articles again. (It took me a few times to get the differences straight.) Anyway, when you say time may as well "loop back on itself", that's where cause and effect comes into play. You're correctly…

If you're saying that going back in time and killing yourself is logical, I don't really see the point in arguing with you any more.

It doesn't matter if the information sent back in time is known already. It could be "Apples are great!" It's that the information caused itself to be sent back in the first place, therefore entering "from nowhere". It should also be noted that all predestination paradoxes are inherently bootstrap paradoxes, (wiki can…

Yes. Quantum mechanics do not conform to logic. A subatomic particle can go back in time and destroy itself. A person cannot. People are not subatomic particles.

But it's not legitimately positing anything. It's just saying that the events caused themselves to happen. It doesn't matter that a fifth dimension was involved. It's trying to give you a reason for the events by adding another dimension, and ultimately there is no reason. It all just happens for no reason.

Yes, it is the bootstrap paradox. It doesn't matter that the robot told him the coordinates; what matters is that he send the coordinates back in time causing all of it to occur in the first place. The bootstrap paradox. If you just take that loop away you would see the normal four dimensional progression that it's…

If things are not linear that means they happen for no reason at all. It's like saying: Why do things have to be logical?

Again; this is a just a normal bootstrap paradox. Just because something physical didn't go back in time doesn't matter. I know what you're trying to say, but a bootstrap paradox doesn't have an origin. There are two paradoxes: One, which is a loop of the information Cooper sends back; the other is the loop of the…

You seem to be making up "facts" about the universe, and thinking the scope of this conversation does not involve explaining the very paradoxes that the conversation is about. If an event is to occur in the universe it must have a causal origin. That is a fact.

I've got one more:

Honestly; most of my comments on the AV Club have probably been about Interstellar due to the fucking bootstrap paradox.

Reasoning for normal linear time: cause and effect. The reasoning given for the bootstrap paradox: outside interference. There is no outside interference in this situation, just two paradoxes. One, which is a loop of the information Cooper sends back; the other is the loop of the fifth dimensional beings creating…

Yeah, but I'd definitely expect Neil deGrasse Tyson to give them shit for that. If everything's blue shifted by over 60 000, I'd assume background radiation alone would cook it.

Also; wouldn't radiation from the sun and stars destroy the planet next to the black hole since it would be ridiculously blue shifted? I mean, if 1 hour is 7 years…

Honestly, until Cooper decided to go into the black hole, I fuckin' loved it despite some bad acting. Those 65mm shot were pretty amazing, (amazingly pretty) and yeah, the visualization of astrophysical phenomena was extraordinary.