#interstellar theory

So at the end of interstellar, one of the scientists (can’t remember her name) found a new inhabitable planet for humanity to start over

And I thought it kinda looked like Tatooine, and yes I know it used to be an ocean planet but I like to think it dried up before the humans got here.

They also found a planet full of water with huge waves and I also thought, “Hmm, Kamino?”

There was another familiar looking planet, (this one is a bit of a stretch tho)

The Matt Damon planet looks a bit like Hoth, because its all white and possible snowy, or at least a more mountainous part of the planet

“Love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable–powerful. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that even if we can’t understand it yet” -Amelia Brand (Interstellar) When Brand says this in Interstellar, I think she may be referring to God (or at least divine beings within God’s dominion). We know one thing based on chapter 4 of the first book of John (1 John 4): God is love. And we also know God to transcend the dimensions we have established in our physical universe (for He is omnipotent). First things first: We need to understand how each dimension works before I mention the “God dimension.” These descriptions are very basic and aren’t really mathematically accurate (bear with me). There are articles on the internet that explain dimensions better with more depth, but these descriptions are to help make my point.

First dimension: a single plane (x) - think of a sheet of paper as a plane

Second dimension: 2 planes (x,y) - think of 2 sheets of paper, one horizontal and one vertical as planes

Third Dimension: multiple planes being stretched on 3 axes to form physical space (x,y,z) - This is everything we can physically observe

Fourth Dimension: Time - time is intangible. It can be measured, but it can’t really be seen/felt/heard/etc. It isn’t a physical object. It is continuous and no moment can ever be the same. It’s what drives the physical objects.

These are the 4 dimensions we know of in our physical world. But what about the 5th dimension or “God dimension” as I call it? We understand God to be physically intangible and although our physical bodies are infused with souls, we also see our souls as physically intangible. The only way we know of reaching Him is through spiritual exercises (like prayer!) I don’t necessarily believe that God physically interacts with us. But I do believe He interacts with us in various spiritual ways (the 5th dimension in Interstellar) and that these interactions can be interpreted in our normal 4 dimensions. This leads me back to Brand’s quote from the movie Interstellar. In this scene, Amelia Brand talks about the transcendent power of love and how she feels connected to someone she hasn’t seen in years and assumes to be dead. She even says that we (humans) can love people who have died which would provide no social utility making love have more of a meaning than what complex emotions can describe. This quote foreshadows a scene later in the movie in which Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is moving through a black hole and suddenly appears in a dimension in which he is beyond time and space. In this dimension, he can observe any physical moment of time that would happen in our natural 4 dimensional world, yet cannot be physically present in those moments. In this scene, Cooper tries to find ways to reach out to Murph.

Let’s backtrack to the beginning/middle of the movie: Cooper’s sole purpose of embarking on the mission was to save earth and ALSO get back to see/save his family–specifically Murph. We know that he and Murph have a wonderful relationship and that he genuinely loves her (we can tell that by his character). So, his mission was solely a product of love. I’m sure we can all agree based on the writing and development of his character.