04 《星际穿越》:超越时间——爱与时间背后的星际意义(Part4) Transcending Time _ Interstellar's Hidden Meaning Behind Love and Time

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So what resistance can we offer against such a relentless force of nature?

The short answer is that we cannot escape time, but we can transcend it and we are doing so increasingly.

This is because human beings have the arguably unique ability to defy time by documenting language and images.

For a long time the most important way to do this was through books.

Books allow us to reach back in time and access moments from the past.

Not just to experience stories of old, but also to develop a sense of cultural history and pass on ideas and technologies.

Just imagine what today's society would have looked like were it not for this vast accumulation of the past.

Today we revisit the past through photographs, audio recordings, music, and film.

This increased ability to transcend time is referred to as atemporality.

One consequence of atemporality is that our ever-growing access to the past is unbinding us from time.

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