As You Sow, so You Shall Reap

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"HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE!"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

H.G. Tannhaus: Where were we?
The Stranger: The Einstein-Rosen bridge.
H.G. Tannhaus: A passage... between a black hole, the entry, and a white hole, the exit, which... connects time and space. To pass through it is to travel through time. Our thinking is shaped by dualism. Entrance, exit. Black, white. Good, evil. Everything appears as opposite pairs. But that's wrong.

H.G. Tannhaus: Have you ever heard of the triquetra?
The Stranger: The trinity knot.
H.G. Tannhaus: Nothing is complete without a third dimension. There isn't only up and down. There's a center, too. I think Einstein and Rosen overlooked something... "Sic mundus creatus est." A wormhole connects not just two, but three different dimensions. Future, present... and past.

Officer 1953: The coin is from 1986.
Egon Tiedemann 1953: Is this a joke?
Officer 1953: It gets even better. Take a look. The little tag on the collar.
Egon Tiedemann 1953: "Made in China"?
Officer 1953: All their clothes are from China.
Egon Tiedemann 1953: Chinese?

Pathologist: This tattoo is strange. I've seen all sorts of odd things, but this... definitely takes the cake.

The Stranger: You write about the lunar-solar cycle, in which everything repeats itself every 33 years.
H.G. Tannhaus: From a cosmic point of view, yes. Every 33 years, the cycle of the moon is synchronized with that of the sun. But the 33... is more than that. We encounter it everywhere. Jesus performed 33 miracles. There are 33 litanies of the angels. Dante's 33 cantos in purgatory, and 33 in paradise... And it is the age at which the Antichrist begins his rule.

Ulrich Nielsen: You have to defend yourself. Or they'll never stop.
Helge Doppler 1953: But they're stronger than me.
Ulrich Nielsen: Then just bite them next time.

H.G. Tannhaus: Imagine you're standing in an infinitely large, dark room, shining a light to the left. The beam should continue in the same direction forever. There's no reason to assume that it could come back at you from the right. But a wormhole changes the topology of space-time. Bends it... Nothing is where it belongs anymore.

H.G. Tannhaus: Imagine traveling back in time and meeting your father. Before he had you... Would you have already changed things with this encounter? And is it even possible to change things?... Or is time an eternal beast that can't be defeated?
The Stranger: What do you think? Can we change the course of events?
H.G. Tannhaus: Any scientist would tell you no. Causal determinism forbids it. But it is human nature to believe that we play a role in our own lives. That our actions can change things.

H.G. Tannhaus: All my life, I've dreamed of traveling through time, to see what was and what will be.
The Stranger: You don't dream that anymore?
H.G. Tannhaus: Dreams change. Other things become important.

H.G. Tannhaus: My place is not in the yesterday or tomorrow. Rather, it's right here. And now.

H.G. Tannhaus: Why are you so fascinated with time?
The Stranger: I want to understand if I can change it.
H.G. Tannhaus: If everything has a purpose, and if so... who decides about 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 can only obey the laws of nature and are nothing but slaves of space and time.

H.G. Tannhaus: Time loops have a significant impact on the principle of causality. On the relationship of cause and effect. As long as a wormhole exists, there is a closed time loop. Inside it, everything is mutually dependent. The past doesn't just influence the future. The future also influences the past. It's like the question of the chicken and the egg. We can no longer say which of the two came first. Everything is interconnected.

H.G. Tannhaus: All our lives are connected. One fate bound to another. Every one of our deeds is merely a response to a previous deed. Cause and effect. Nothing but an endless dance... Everything is connected to everything else... But that's just a theory.

The Stranger: I've seen the future. I know what will happen.

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