Reddit reviews NOVA - The Elegant Universe

EXACTLY 12.34 HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

No. You're still not understanding.

Watch this excerpt from "The Elegant Universe" on how we understand spacetime to actually be.

There is no "first time." All of spacetime exists already - the moment you are born and the moment you die both exist simultaneously. The same for every event. If you had the technology to "step outside" the 4D "block" of spacetime you could see all of these events connected by a "worldline" of every event in your life. The same for any event you cared to look at.

As humans, we can't even conceive of how this perception would appear to us. That's the point of these "distant future humans" needing to communicate through Cooper in the tessaract, they can perceive huge chunks of spacetime but cannot focus on any one particular moment anymore without something to connect them to it, hence their connection to Cooper (that's my interpretation at least based on Cooper's words to TARS).

Our perception as humans in our "now" is limited to entropy - we use electrochemical reactions to interpret our surroundings and remember what we interpreted before - these function through entropy hence we cannot see the future. But that does not mean the future is not there, already existing, waiting for our entropy-bound perceptions to encounter it.

With this conclusion, you can see that Cooper is always knocking the books off the shelf and sending himself the coordinates in the dust... just like he is always discovering the coordinates his future self sent. It just depends on which section of the block universe, which period of coordinates in the 4th dimension (3 of direction, 1 of time) you want to pay attention to.

Would that book happen to have anything to do with this dvd? http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Elegant-Universe-Michael-Duff/dp/B0000ZG0TA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1411935630&sr=8-3&keywords=the+elegant+universe Because I bought that exact dvd yesterday, and have yet to watch it.