The Trinity Knot
- by Sofia Blue
- Dec 7, 2017
- 4 min read
I've been watching this Netflix series Dark and am pretty fascinated by it. It's something between AO and Stranger Things. About what is out there that we don't know. About another life, another dimension, another "what if" that we humans want to discover.
I like this one particularly because it is about time travel. What was, what is and what will be. Who are we humans, what is the point and is what we know to be true really true? The best part is that it is all based on scientific theories and it makes so much sense.
And it makes no sense at all! If the world is what we think it is, how deep would our believes be shaken by discovering nothing of what we know is actually true. Can you imagine the shock and disbelief people had when they heard the Earth is round for the first time? Or can you imagine somebody's reaction in the 50s seeing a mobile phone?
So I ask myself. Are we crazy?! Are we the crazy really crazy? Or is it that we see the world and experience life in a whole new level unknown to "normal" people. I dare even ask - is mental illness a next step into our evolution? Why so many of us have mental issues? Does the pain we constantly feel make us better? One thing for sure - there is something about that pain. It humbles you. You know you don't know. It opens your mind - you find you could feel things others never could. What you thought could not exist is right there before you. So are you losing your mind or did you just discover Earth is not flat?
Scientist: Where were we?
Stranger:The Einstein-Rosen bridge.
Scientist: A passage where between a black hole, the entry, and a white hole, the exit, which connects the two - time and space. To pass through it is to travel through time.
Our thinking is shaped by dualism. Entrance, exit, white, black, good and evil. Everything appears to us as opposite pairs. But that’s wrong.
Have you ever heard of the triquetra?
Stranger: You mean the trinity knot?
Scientist: Nothing can truly be complete without the third dimension. There isn’t only up and down. There’s a center as well. In describing the space-time continuum Einstein and Rosen overlooked something. A wormhole connects not just two but three dimensions. It serves to connect the past, present and future.
Stranger: You write about Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence - a universe that expands and then collapses again. A universe that repeats itself endlessly. You write about the lunar-solar cycle, where everything repeats itself every 33 years.
Scientist: Yes, from a cosmic point of view. Every 33 years, the cycle of the moon is synchronized with that of the sun. But that number, 33, that reoccurs everywhere in our lives. Jesus performed 33 miracles. There were 33 litanies of the angels. Dante’s 33 cantos in purgatory and 33 in paradise.
Stranger: It’s also the age where the antichrist begun.
Scientist: Imagine this - you’re standing in an infinite large dark room and you’re shinning a light to the left (he then draws a person and arrow to the left on a piece of paper). The beam should continue forever. There's no reason to believe the beam will come back at you to the right but a wormhole can alter the topology of space-time. Bend it. Nothing is where it belongs anymore (he folds the paper so that the arrows comes from the right side of the person).
Imagine traveling back in time and meeting your own father. Before you existed. Would you have already altered things because of this encounter? Or is it possible to change things? Or is time an eternal beast that can’t be defeated?
Stranger: What do you think? Can you change the course of events?
Scientist: Ha, any scientist would tell you no. Casual determinism forbids it. But it is human nature to believe we play a role in our own lives. That our actions can change things. My entire life I dreamt about going through time to see what was what and what will be.
Stranger: You done with that dream?
Scientist: Our dreams do change. Other things become important. My place is not in the yesterday or tomorrow. Rather it is here and now.
Stranger: That number 33. In your book you write it could be the time difference between the planes of a three dimensional wormhole.
Scientist: That’s just a theory of mine. Or it could be the crux of the matter.
Scientist: But you… why is it that time fascinates you so much?
Stranger: I want to understand if I can change it, if everything has a purpose, and if so who is it that’d ecides this purpose - coincidence? God? Or is it us? Are we actually free in our actions? Or is it all created anew, in an eternally recurring cycle? And we’re just slaves to the laws of nature and are nothing but victims of time and space?
On the relationship between cause and effect. As long as a a wormhole exists, there is a closed time loop. Inside it, everything is mutually dependent. The past does not just influence the future. The future also influences the past. It’s like the chicken and the egg. We can no longer say which was found first. Everything is connected.
All our lives are connected. One fate bound to another. Every deed we initiate is a response to some previous deed. Cause and effect. Nothing but an endless dance. Everything is connected to everything else.
From the Netflix series Dark (s.1, ep.8)
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