![]() One possibility is that in the "original" timeline, humanity did in fact die out on Earth, but Brand's "Plan B" colony on Edmunds' planet survived, evolved, and eventually developed the ability to travel through time and change the past, creating a new timeline. It seems impossible, but there may be an explanation that works within the world of Interstellar. It's a theory known as a " bootstrap paradox," in which the cause of an event turns out to be the result of that same event. Interestingly enough, thanks to the way the tesseract allows Coop to communicate through time, Murph has actually had the data she needed to solve the equation for years, encoded in the watch her father left her she just didn't realize it. However, Murph does wind up solving the equation after Brand's death, thanks to the data she receives from her father, her "ghost," through the tesseract. Without solving the gravitational equation, humanity is simply too big to lift off Earth, and is doomed to a slow death on a dying planet. While humans have the technology to launch individual shuttles, the city-sized space stations are another story, and sending them into space requires humans to learn to manipulate gravity according to their will. In order for Plan A to work, Brand needs to figure out how to get the entire human race off of the planet aboard gigantic space stations. The same is true for Brand, who experienced the same time slippage as Cooper, which is why she and Cooper are the only ones to end the film around the same age they were when it began.Īs for what the equation itself is supposed to accomplish, it all comes back to the film's recurring theme of gravity. However, even though around 85 years have passed for Murph and the people of Earth since Cooper left on the Endurance, it's only seemed like a few months for him. While we never learn precisely how many years Cooper and Brand lose during their Hail Mary maneuver, it's probably somewhere around 60 years, since by the end of the film, we're told that Cooper is technically 124 years old, and he was likely in his late 30s or early 40s at the start of the film. The next big jump happens during the slingshot around Gargantua, after Romilly dies. ![]() By the time they leave the water planet, it's been a few months since departing Earth for Cooper and Brand, 25 years for Murph and NASA, and somewhere in between for Romilly. However, while Romilly is also in Earth-time, he goes into hibernation for a few long stretches, so he may have only aged a decade or so during those 23 years. While Cooper and Brand only experience a few hours, the people of Earth, including Murph, live another 23 years. Yeah, it's a murderous Matt Damon, which we don't often get to see on-screen.īut once the Endurance hits the water planet, keeping track of time becomes much trickier. Paranoid that the Endurance crew won't go along with his plan once they learn what he's done, Mann attempts to kill Cooper so he can make his getaway. At this point, Mann is so desperate to leave that he'll do anything, even commit murder. Although he resisted the urge for years, he eventually falsified his survey data in order to coax another team to travel to his planet, intending to use the Endurance to escape. Although each of the original 12 scientists knew their trip was one-way, Mann admits he never fully considered the possibility that his planet would be uninhabitable, and that he might die alone. Unfortunately, it's soon all revealed to be a ruse. ![]() Mann's (Matt Damon) planet, the heroic scientist assures them his icy cold spot is the perfect place for humans to live. A few years later, the Endurance and its crew - including Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and Brand (Anne Hathaway) - are going to visit the three most promising planets in the hopes of colonizing one. As we learn at the beginning of the film, a group of 12 scientists traveled through a mysterious wormhole that appeared near Saturn, to see if the 12 planets on the other side could sustain human life.
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