bending time?

Question

In the movie "De Ja Vue," they talk about bending time. Going from a, to be, in less time. That confused me. Example; I am driving from New York City, to Los Angeles. Say it takes 4 days to drive there. If I "bend time" to where it takes 2 days to drive there, what about everything between NY and LA? Do we squeeze all of it together?
To make the distance shorter, Or WHAT? I am confused.

Answer 1

Hi David, I bet you never read A Wrinkle in Time? It talks about a tesser or tesseract which is actually a wrinkle in time. They explain it as time symbolized as a piece of string. It takes so long to get from one end to the other. . .unless you create a wrinkle in that string and pull the ends closer together that way. It deals with the fourth dimension, at least that's the premise presented in the book. The book is geared toward teens but the series is well worth the read for any open minded adult. Lots to ponder in the books.

Answer 2

Since, for now this is a thing of science fiction, your guess is as good as anyone else's! But according to Einstien, time and space are related, in his world there is x, y, z and vt (velocity x time) so bending time would be bending space. My guess....think of the US as a flat sheet of paper. You can drive from NY to LA along the surface, or 'bend' the surface so that LA and NY touch. Everything in between is still there, you have just taken a trip through another dimension. But so far, we can't access that dimension.

Answer 3

I have not seen the movie - but judging from your question, it must be a SciFi thriller.
The key here is the "Fi" part of "SciFi."
"Bending time" sounds like some sort of space warping analogy - as in the fact that time runs slower in a strong gravitational field where the space fabric itself is "bent" or warped.