The new Indiana Jones movie is two hours of cringing with Harrison Ford during the stunts and stewing in mild annoyance at the female adventure “bad boy” Elena. I have lost faith in Hollywood to ever nail the female archetype of “bad boy”, but that’s a rant for another time.
It is also, obviously, about nostalgia. For me, it is about a specific topic left unresolved since 2018, until now.
Before I get into that, a slight detour:
I have just realised the best way to describe “Energy” to myself. It came to me suddenly, that moment when Iron Man is wielding the gauntlet of the infinity stones, and they’re crawling up his hand…”Energy is sheer resistance to non-being, that sacrifices itself to remain so.”
It was life-changing when it first occurred to me, but now sounds “meh.” But so are the Physics equation and biology definition.
Back to the Dial of Destiny. In the film, the antagonist Jürgen Voller says he’s conquered space when the Reporter asks him if he’s going for Mars after the Moon.
When the Reporter asks what is beyond space, Voller takes a long pause before he parts his lips to say something. He’s interrupted, but it is safe to say that he was going to say “Time.”
And suddenly, like the energy description came to me, something I read a few years ago about time made sense.
In the book “Tertium Organum” by Pyotr Ouspenskii, I read that the fourth dimension of space is time. That the fourth line that can be drawn in 3D space is time. That space becomes time.
The way I have always thought about time travel has always been like in Avengers: Endgame or Terminator. The “zap” and boom you are somewhere in the past or future. It has never satisfied me!
In Indiana Jones: Dail of Destiny, they travel in space in aircrafts, to this opening in the sky. It makes more sense that time travel is literally travelling to and through a hole in space, up there.
It is more beautiful that way, engaging, revealing. Rather than the zooming, time jumps, and portals (even though the zooming “conquers” the speed of light?
The mechanical industrial aspect of it makes it more “real”.
I’m grateful Facts don’t have feelings, because boy do I hate them.
“People tend to romanticise Science when it is, in fact, cold,” says Jürgen Voller.
That’s the point, Voller, you Nazi. That’s the damn point.
When I googled, “does Time travel faster than light?”
“As far as we know, nothing can go faster than light. However, if one travels close to the speed of light, time behaves differently than we are used to, and in this way, one can move forward in time faster than those left behind. So it is theoretically possible to travel to the future, but one could not return.”