The Genesis Code Page #9

Synopsis: A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Genre: Drama
Production: Rocky Mountain Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.4
PG
Year:
2010
138 min
Website
74 Views


And time.

We all knew what time was,

it was the ticking of the clock,

always the same, one day to

the next, the same.

Here, on the moon,

across the universe, today,

a thousand years ago.

Let's go!

And time.

Time was a constant that had

nothing to do

with anything else.

Time moves forward from today

to tomorrow and on and on,

always forward

and at the same speed.

Tick, tock, tick, tock...

Then along came Albert Einstein

and everything changed.

ooh...

I knew this was

gonna be a physics class.

I knew it, man.

Learning is rough.

Marc:
Does everyone know

The Big Bang Theory?

- ooh!

- Yes, Tyler.

Um, it is a TV show about

two really nerdy dudes

who live next door to this

really hot chick who-

It's about these

two really nice guys

and a really pleasant girl.

It's a great TV show, Tyler,

but I'm actually talking about

the other Big Bang.

We have a little computer

imagery to show you what it was.

In the beginning,

there was nothing.

The universe did not exist.

No planets or stars,

not even empty space, nothing.

J.T.:
Not even time.

Marc:
And out of this complete

nothing was a flash,

and a speck was formed

no bigger than a mustard seed.

J.T.:
And in that tiny speck

was all of everything

that ever would be.

And that speck expanded

at hundreds of millions

of miles per hour.

It was a ball of pure energy,

dense and massive

beyond imagination.

J.T.:
And the temperature was

in the trillions of degrees.

Marc:
A mass of pure plasma

expanding at the speed of light.

Everything that

ever would be, I mean,

the material from which

everything exists today,

the planets and the stars,

all living things.

Time and space itself

was created at that moment.

And this was good news for

Bible thumpers like me and Dad

because science was saying that

there was a beginning,

just like it says

in the Bible.

of course the bad news was,

is the Bible said this

all happened in six days.

This idea of the Big Bang

all came about

as a result of Einstein's

theories of relativity,

where he established

that in the physical sciences,

nothing was absolute.

Everything was relative to

everything else.

- Even time.

- Time is relative to speed.

It's a concept in physics

we call time dilation.

I'd imagine you've

all heard this example.

Imagine Lin and J.T. are twins

living here on Earth.

I know, weird, right?

Lin boards a spaceship

and flies off traveling

near the speed of light

to some faraway star.

J.T. stays here on Earth.

Now for Lin, the trip takes,

oh, about a year.

But when she returns to Earth,

she finds that J.T. has aged

nearly 20 years.

oh no.

For me, traveling at

near the speed of light,

time passed more slowly

than it did for J.T.

waiting here on Earth.

ooh, like that-

Like that one W.C. Fields joke

where he's like-

"Philadelphia,

it's a wonderful town,

spent a week there one night. "

- Right?

- No.

It's not something that

seemed to be,

and it's not that her

clock just ran more slowly.

It's that less actual time

elapsed for Lin

as she traveled

near the speed of light.

J.T.:
Think of it this way.

For an object at rest, time

passes as we are accustomed.

As the object begins

to accelerate

and as its speed

approaches the speed of light,

the amount of time that passes

decreases.

The passage of time

is relative to speed-

as Lin said, time dilation.

Um, are we- Are we done

with all the physics stuff?

You'll like this next part,

Tyler.

Yes.

( imitating fanfare )

So this time dilation thing

is just like

in "Star Trek," right,

is that what he's saying?

Like when young Spock

meets old Spock.

Just like that,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

- That was weird,

- That was so weird.

But I didn't think that

was a real thing,

that's a movie thing, right?

- No, that happens.

- oh.

Ladies and gentlemen,

welcome to the planetarium.

Please have a seat over here,

remain seated!

Permanecen sentados,

por favor.

J.T.:
To gather another visual

to show you what we mean

by time dilation.

We took some footage

from an old sci-fi movie

and created this

little clip.

Please, enjoy yourselves.

Get comfortable and lean

your seats back.

Imagine this is the bridge

of a starship on a mission

of deep-space exploration.

A mission at the very center of

our Milky Way Galaxy

where most scientists

now believe

we will find

a super massive black hole.

The black hole at the center

of our Milky Way

was once a star

with a mass estimated to be

some 2.5 million times

that of our own sun.

Lin:
When that star collapsed,

all of its mass was condensed

into a tiny spot in space

of infinite density.

The size on the

scale of a grain of sand.

Marc:
This is called

a singularity,

and the gravitational attraction

it exerts is so powerful

that nothing, not even

light itself, can escape.

Hence the name,

"black hole. "

Lin:
The commander

of the starship

has sent one of his smaller

survey craft

to explore the black hole.

Let's call the commander of

the survey craft Captain Chen.

Can I be the commander

of the starship?

- Sure, why not?

- Cool.

Commander Chase on the starship

is watching Captain Chen

on the bridge

of the survey craft

as it approaches

the event horizon.

J.T.:
That's the edge.

Lin:
The edge

of the black hole.

As Commander Chase and his

helmsman look across

at the bridge of the survey

craft through their monitor-

Looking into one frame of

reference from another.

That's right, yes.

Lin:
Chase and his helmsman see

the movements of

Chen and her crew

are slowing down.

They now seem to be in slow

motion, but for Captain Chen,

everything is normal.

She will log the results of her

mission into her ship's computer

and then take her survey craft

back to the coordinates

where she expects to

find the parent starship,

but it's not there.

J.T.:
They will hail another

passing ship and experience

a startling revelation.

Lin:
Those to whom Captain Chen

will ultimately give the report

of her one-hour survey at

the edge of the black hole

will be the distant descendants

of her starship mates.

During the one hour

described by Captain Chen,

the clocks of these

descendants

will have recorded the passage

of thousands of years.

During what Captain Chen

and her crew experienced

as the passage of one hour

at the event horizon,

thousands of years

have elapsed in the space

they occupy prior to their trip

to the black hole.

As I said earlier,

this is time dilation.

The effect of increased gravity

slowing the passage of time,

just as does speed.

For an object in a zero-

or low-gravity environment,

time passes as we are

accustomed.

As the force of gravity

on an object increases,

the passage of time narrows.

Time slows down.

To sum it up,

time is not fixed or constant.

Lin:
Time or

the passage of time

is affected by speed

and by gravity.

The greater the speed or the

greater the force of gravity,

the slower the passage of time.

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