Well, there is nothing fun on the feast of three things: meeting friends and family, watching an enjoyable movie, and continuing the same play every year at home with the family. For this reason, we decided in the scientific section at Meydan to nominate a group of wonderful science fiction films with one simple condition, which is that these films have real roots in the various disciplines of scientific research, even if they are just possibilities.
Could that happen? That there be another land just like ours that contains the people themselves, the roads, cities and countries themselves, but are you better with them? You passed your exams and entered the college you love, and you are now working in one of the large companies that you have always been looking forward to, and in your eyes are laughter. Well, in the wonderful movie "Another Earth" you will meet a similar situation, Roda Williams decides to volunteer to be the first to visit that other land, but the magnificence of this movie is not related to the idea of the other earth as it relates to another important question we ask ourselves every day Almost which is: Who am I? What got me here? Is this what I wanted for myself all my life?
According to the hypothesis of multiple worlds in the world of physics, that is possible. That hypothesis receives support among many physicists, but we cannot yet confirm this because it is very difficult, or perhaps impossible, to test the existence of other worlds.
Well, this is really possible, but it is certain that we, like Brad Pitt in the wonderful movie "Ad Astra", will be able to wander on the moon and perhaps between the planets as if we are traveling to another country, hoping for the big jumps made by companies like "Blue" Origins "or" SpaceX "and look at just 20 years into the future and you'll know what we can get.
But Brad Pitt's movie does not ask this question. Rather, he wanders in the depths of ourselves asking: In this very broad universe, and as we come to all of this technology, what about our simple existential questions about ourselves? Does the smaller our size in relation to this universe, the more we feel fear, boredom, and the need to surrender? Can the greatness of this universe reveal to us how weak we are so that we will repeat the question again: Who are we and why did we come here? This is a movie in space, not about it!
What if the world ends tomorrow because there is a huge comet that will collide with Earth? We could not stop it in any way, we sent a number of space flights to detonate it but no hope, tomorrow the collision will occur. Although the Earth - while we speak - is completely safe, we do not yet have sufficiently accurate instruments to monitor the small asteroids that pass through the Earth before they pass through them, which puts us at a potential danger. It is a very small possibility, but it exists. possibility.
But this film actually does not discuss the reality of the comet as much as it concerns one thing, which is the extent of our need for calm enough to deal with an atmosphere like the one we are going through now (the Corona pandemic emerging). You are really trying to make every effort to do that, but nothing seems to work. Tensions infiltrate into you through a door, then close it and dozens of doors open in return, but what if the idea is not to close any of them? What if the problem is that you just don't accept what happens as something that is too big to be controlled? And based on what this idea of primary depression shows, you will realize at some point that the sooner we accept it, the happier we will be!
For some reason, humans lost their fertility, everything is coming to an end, less than a hundred years old and everyone will die, but it suddenly happens that this girl with a baby in her womb appears, how will people deal with this colossal event? In fact, our fertility - we humans - is declining, no one knows the exact reason, some researchers believe these are environmental changes, and others believe that it is the contemporary social system that pressures the biology of our bodies, in a 2017 New Zealand study, a team of scientists believe that this It is the reason why we are on the way to extinction.
But how are we going to deal with that idea? How can we survive when we know, not only that we will die someday, but that our species will become extinct?
How would you behave if you suddenly discovered that you were living in a world only ruled by chance? Meaning that no matter how you plan, and whatever you try to predict the future with those plans, you know that you will not succeed! In other words, more interesting: What if we carried out Schrödinger's cat's intellectual experiment but instead of the cat we put a group of 8 people, and instead of the box we put someone's house? This film tries to incorporate ideas from the world of quantum and the mathematics of probabilities in a very exciting way, despite its fantasy and its distance from the scientific meaning of these ideas, and in a manner that is totally boring, quite the opposite, it is a thriller and horror of the first degree!
The idea of a butterfly effect is simple, relying on the fundamental fundamentals of the theory of complexity, which says that very slight initial effects - like flapping a butterfly wing in Germany - can grow with time to become the size of a huge hurricane in China, this sensitivity to initial conditions appears strongly in weather science equations for example For example, changing a very small number, located at the tip of one of the equations after 5 steps of the decimal point, could be the difference between quiet spring weather and thunderstorm rain.
In this wonderful movie, the same thing happens but instead of the butterfly, or the sixth number of the decimal point, we will put the behaviors of Mr. Evan, who travels to the past to change something very slight, but when he comes back to the present everything has turned upside down, so what is the solution then? How do we recover our lives in all this chaos?
It is the first contact, for decades decades we were wondering about other rational beings in this universe, we were wondering about where we are in the universe, who are we and who brought us here? And here they want to talk to us, but who do we send to talk to them? How will humans deal with their existence? Will interest prevail, or will we accept the presence of other beings other than us in the universe, albeit with difficulty? Then let's ask important questions first, what about our sense of ourselves, about our convictions about our beliefs? This movie is based on a wonderful book by the famous American scientist "Carl Sagan", so it is not just a movie about aliens, it is a movie about faith and love!
What if we decided to repeat the experiment again, would it have worked? Suppose you entered into a love relationship, years past that relationship and its features were chaotic, a lot of love, a lot of warm feelings, a lot of difference and soreness, a strange mix that can only be judged by his experience. Now we will erase your memory and the memory of the other party in the relationship, then you meet together by chance once again, was this new time to succeed, or is it settled because each of us has a nature that cannot be changed, but why not? Are ourselves rigid solids or can they be changed?
But the strangest question the film posed indirectly was about memory, how far can our memory affect our future? Some scholars believe that they control almost everything, others see their effect as moderate.
Do you know that this is really possible? In fact, the term predictive policing already exists, and some big data scientists believe that we will reach a day when we can predict the occurrence of the crime before it occurs depending on the huge capabilities of artificial intelligence in analyzing the citizens ’data that reveal what they cannot perceive, In this film, we use girls with high mental abilities who can expect the future with graphic accuracy, but officer John Anderson discovers while he is engaged in his work that he will commit a crime in the near future.
But does that not change the future? In fact, the films that talk about traveling for the future, or even getting to know it without travel, offer a strange paradox, because knowing the future - if possible - becomes part of the past, and therefore this - in and of itself - is considered a change in this past, which means that The future will change as well, but the irony is that you went to him and saw him there!
They are aliens again, but this time we are better than them. Although they are rational beings, we treat them as second degree, less than us. The film is wonderful, not only at the level of directing or acting, but what mainly draws attention to it is the wonderful way in which he was able to describe one of our strangest human beings, which is the process of "dehumanization", a situation in which we transform our political enemies - on Example - to anything other than human beings, which opens the door for us to commit the most heinous crimes in the history of humanity, and murder is usually the least heinous!