Time & Space Unfolded....

"Thus time is thought of as something that flows, like a river, at a constant rate and in one direction only. A river wears down the things in its path, and things similarly age and decay over time. A river has a distant and obscure source, and eventually flows into a vast ocean...Space, on the other hand, is popularly thought of as resembling not a river but a great and motionless vessel within which everything is spread out and contained. Thus we think of objects as moving through space, much as fish move about in a vast lake."

-Richard Taylor

Reading up on the topics of Time, Memory, and Mortality; Richard Taylor stood out the most in trying to understand these vast concepts in the most philosophical way possible. He added a certain something for me in my understanding of time, space, and the relativity of the concepts (or entities) themselves. Taylor truly explored different aspects of  Time and its relation to Space. The one that really stood out was excerpt from the section where he talks about the relativity of Time and Space, shown above. 

It truly describes Time as a river that flows into the vast ocean, which I would think that vast ocean is the great and motionless vessel which everything is spread out and contained. That is the great ocean that time runs into that provokes existence. I believe the two are interconnected and intertwined in some way. The movie I watched was Interstellar and it truly was awesome because it does discuss the possibly of the two having a relation to each other; plus it had Mathew McConaughey in it! The two intricate descriptions of time and space play into my own person theory of time that I learned in Philosophy; Leibniz's theory of the unfolding monad.  

The movie Looper was a very interesting movie that dived into the theories of 'Time Travel' and 'Time and Change' that Taylor talks about in Space and Time. In the movie there were people in the future who created time travel but it was outlawed. Bad people ended up with the technology and used it to dispose of loose ends in the business. At one point in time, there were incidents of closing loops which means the people who disposed of future bodies were sent back into the past to die by their own hands. This was made possible because the people sent back in time to be killed had their faces covered so you would never know who was being selecting for reaping. This one particular time, The young man himself was sent back but with nothing covering his face. The story takes a strange but interesting turn to a Man versus Self conflict, quickly. Come to find out in the end, the young man that became a Looper had to kill himself to prevent the endless cycle of creating a monster inadvertently. 

Richard does say about Time and Change that, 

"there is a more general sense of 'change' however, according to which something is said to have a more or less interesting history. Something changes in the sense, in other words, in case it acquires and loses various properties and relationships over an interval of time - in case its temporal parts are dissimilar... A thing would change temporally, in the sense we are considering, in case it was, for example, blue at one time and red at another. But then something such as wire, might be blue at one end and red at the other, and perhaps various other colors between these two places"(484-485).

That is a good example of how an major event change in history could be displayed through the example in the wire where at some point along the wire, the wire changes from blue to red. In comparison to the movies I watched; Interstellar showed the change when Matthew pushed out the books in the beginning to warn his daughter, that was the same time that he was stuck in the library of time out in space. In the film Looper  the best example was when the young version of the young man killed himself in order to stop the older version from killing the kid's mother and creating the Rainmaker. This week threw me for a mental loop and played games with my mental faculties, however I did learn a lot!