Aether

written and directed by Jerry Brown, Jr.

Release: 2 April 2018
Format: Short Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

At the moment when the speedometer on the Aether spaceship clicked over from .999999c to 1.00000c, a collective cheer erupted up in the ITTDB Citadel. Was it a jaw-dropping dramatic moment? Seems unlikely, but we were looking for something to cheer for in this cryptic story of three men who headed to the future via relativistic time travel, only to find themselves trapped in post-apocalyptic outer space and quantum technobabble.

— Michael Main

It nullifies Gödel’s theorem.

DEBUT

Aether (Youtube: SuperEpic Channel, 2 April 2018).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Big Bang (13.8 Ga)
Unspecified Future Year: Relativistic time dilation takes the group 1,103 years into the future, but we don’t know the starting time.

Time Travel Methods

FTL Time Travel: “Our Lorenz-factor models show that achieving superluminal travel could possibly send an object backwards through time.”

Themes

Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics: “Anything veering slightly toward quantum mechanics, Reevs filtered my way.”
Media from Another Time: There appears to be a radio signal from the big bang.
Relativistic Time Dilation
Stuck in Time

Fictional Tags

Abrahamic God: “Daniel” may be God.
Deities
Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds: The world appears to be nothing but smallish rubble. Don’t ask us what happened during those 1,103 years.

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From outer space, an unspecified time where the United States still exists ⋙ to a time 1,103 years later. Note: via relativistic time dilation.