Timeline for Why can Murph still read the Morse Coded wrist watch when she has brought the watch back to her office in NASA, which is out of her room?
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 10:38 | comment | added | Petersaber | @phantom42 Cooper is a 3D being, and the Tessaract needed to provide him with a simple point of reference to position on Earth where Murph was likely to be found throughout her life. Having anything larger than a room would be impractical. So he can only affect the things inside the room. However, the Tessaract and the higher beings behind it are not bound by such petty limitations | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 20:41 | comment | added | phantom42 | Thought about it some more, and there is an instance of him communicating with someone outside of the room: when he shakes hands with Brand through time. Not exactly the gravitational fields working outside of the room, but at least some sort of communication outside of those restrictions. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @phantom42 - I would speculate it's because of the "interface" of the tesseract--he has to be able to actually see an object (specifically its 4D world-tubes) in order to tell the tesseract he wants to send a pattern of gravitational waves to it by banging on the world-tubes. And he didn't seem to have conscious control over where the tesseract took him, maybe it was picking up on subconscious wishes. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 17:08 | comment | added | phantom42 | Unknown, but if so, it does sort of raise the question of why Coop didn't try to send the message to Murph more directly instead of on a watch that she had left in the room for all those years. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 17:05 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @phantom42 - Yes, I know. If the tesseract can store the pattern and continually send it to the clock at different points in time, why should it have any special problem if the clock leaves the room? Is there any suggestion that its gravitational signals can't escape the boundaries of the room? | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | phantom42 | The question is asking about when Murph takes the watch from the room, and is still able to view the message being sent in Morse. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 16:48 | history | answered | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |