Also, this doesn't come up in the film, but isn't this why the universe as far as we are concerned is only what exists in our light cone?
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As in: the aliens in the movie DEFINITELY do not have FTL travel, because if they did, they'd inevitably break Fermat's theorem
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They would not be able to see the future if they could truly time travel (break a light cone) because their apparent "rememberingthe future"
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> depends upon their experience being the same as a particle traveling at the fastest speed possible through its medium, no >
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You're on track. It's grappling with the painful philosophical implications of hard physics stuff that makes me love Ted Chiang's writing
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A lot of stuff, he's on Wikipedia. One of his most famous stories is Hell is the Absence of God
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Ooh, is that about the same concept? Because that's the worst part of the film's/story's premise, for me.
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Determinism and helplessness? Yes
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