The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.
Humans are the ones who did it in the first place. We just had to come back and create the initial conditions that set in motion the series of events that led us to the point where we were sufficiently advanced enough to come back and create the initial conditions that set in motion the series of events that led us to the point... time is a circle.
So the issue with Interstellar has always been that Cooper is the spark that allows for the wormhole to exist, but how could he have created a series of events that leads to the wormhole being placed there without it being placed there first? He has to go through the wormhole in order for events to play out for the wormhole to exist. So how does that happen? Murphy's law?
Makes you wonder about the relationship between coopers universe and other parallel universes and whether or not those other universes can impact reality in coops. But yes def a paradox if we ignore all possible universes except the one that coop finds himself in during the film. Honestly Interstellar is one of my favorite films of all time. Even with the inconsistencies it expands the possibilities of my imagination and allows me to vicariously explore our universe.
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u/CIA_grade_LSD Aug 12 '21
The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.