"Interstellar" & "The Martian"

I have been a little tired recently, so I gave myself a night off and watched two American science fiction movies in a row. "Interstellar" is an adventure story about going to the other side of a black hole to find a planet suitable for human habitation in order to save humanity from extinction on Earth; and "The Martian" is the space version of "Saving Private Ryan."

I have just finished learning the three stages of easy effectiveness. It is very interesting to understand these two movies from the perspective of time management:

The length/density of time:

" "Interstellar" mentioned that in different galaxies, the standards of time are different. During their journey, they landed on a water planet, where 1 minute is 1 year of Earth time. Because of their small mistake, they were delayed for a few minutes. When their spacecraft returned to the mother ship, their partners on the mother ship had been waiting for 23 years and had turned from a middle-aged man in his 40s to an old man. For a person, all resources can be copied, but time is the only resource. Once consumed, it cannot be regenerated. But at another latitude, your time is different from other people's time. Your time may be several times, dozens of times, or hundreds of times that of others. It depends on how you control time.

When you are waiting to meet your lover, do you feel that your days are like years? And when you are so glued together with your lover, do you feel that time flies by? People can perceive time, and the time scale is adjustable!

Our railway speed has increased from more than 100 kilometers per hour to 300 kilometers per hour. The underground tunnel high-speed train being studied by Tesla (/news/20170504/232702.html) has a speed of 1,287 kilometers per hour. When your speed reaches a certain level, you change time. Does this also change the time scale in some way?

The protagonist in "The Martian" calculates the food inventory and lives within his means to be able to support until rescue arrives. He keeps recording every day (morning diary?) to collect all available resources and transform them for his own use. Establish a connection at Earth Headquarters, become a member of the team, and unify your own calendar with the team's calendar to coordinate and act in a unified manner. . . Time management, which is not included in May Day, must be precise and subtle for the situation in space, otherwise it may be like in "Interstellar", where a few people were on the water planet for only a few minutes, and their The partners have been waiting for 23 years. . .

The relationship between time and space:

From two-dimensional space to five-dimensional space, or even multi-dimensional space mentioned in "Interstellar". . . Our current understanding of the world is still limited to a three-dimensional perspective. When I saw the protagonist seeing his daughter at various points in time across the bookshelf in the high-dimensional space, I was shocked. This is how high latitudes look at low latitudes. Everything is in In the control of high latitudes, in the eyes of high latitudes, time exists in another material form. In addition, the clip where the protagonist uses Morse code to send a message to his daughter, from a traditional Chinese perspective, can it be understood as a dream? Our deceased relatives have gone to another world that we cannot currently understand (such as heaven, hell, the Western Paradise...). How to communicate? I believe that one day this problem will be solved, such as the Chinese way of asking gods, upper bodies, etc.?

"Interstellar", I saw a comment saying that we now live in a four-dimensional world, three-dimensional coordinates determine our position, time is the fourth dimension, determining our past and future, this understanding Acceptable. Aren't history books written in the order of chronicles from ancient times to the present? But if you compare Chinese history and Western history at the same time, you will find that the stretching and shortening of time is typical. The comparison is that from the Opium War in 1840 to the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the West has entered the era of industrial civilization and hot weapons, while we are still stuck in the era of men farming and women weaving, hoping to attract gods, and using invulnerable means to confront modern weapons. The development of both sides has ceased. No longer in the same era or in the same space.

When a father in his 40s met his 80-year-old daughter who was about to die. . . As a result, I not only thought of the last part of the novel "The Three-Body Problem", in the long river of time, the curvature of space leads to the distortion of time. In this way, people can have ways to extend their lifespan or life, and in fact it also gives With the revelation given to us, can we extend our lives or influence in a disguised way?

The English name of "The Martian" is "Martian". I thought it was the name of the protagonist at first, but what is the name of the protagonist? , take a closer look, Mar means Mars, and the literal translation of the title should be "Martian". The protagonist spent more than 500 Martian days alone on Mars. He used his own feces to grow potatoes, made his own lightning and rainwater, and was self-sufficient. He considered himself a Martian. Only by adapting to the environment and transforming it can we control the environment (space). Survival of the fittest, if you can survive and win a place in a new space, you have control of your own time.

The value of time:

"The Martian" can only be regarded as a feature film compared to "Interstellar", but this film emphasizes individual subjective initiative, or proactiveness ! People must first save themselves before they can be saved. If the protagonist does not want to survive, even if rescue arrives in the future, he will only be able to bring back a body.

Only when you value yourself can you be worthy of being valued! Being proactive is reflected in being able to arrange and control one's own time.

We choose different means of transportation, from 80 km/h cars, 300 km/h high-speed rail, 1,000 km/h airplanes. Based on our understanding of the value of time, the 2,400-kilometer journey from Beijing to Shenzhen , you can drive for 2 days, you can take the high-speed train for 10 hours, or you can choose to fly for 3 hours. You are in control of your time.

I have been reading a series of articles by Li Xiaolai recently. He has been emphasizing the cost of time. Everything is ultimately measured in terms of time. How to minimize your unit time cost is to maximize your value. change!