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tyder21 posted...

This logic is along similar lines to where I keep getting tripped up and where the movie might be failing?

To take an example from the movie: say a war in the year 2100 blows a gear off a machine and it lands somewhere obscure. Now this gear sits somewhere, undiscovered, until 2020 where it is picked up by a modern-day scientist. This scientist then places said gear into a drawer in some lab. Scientist continues to live their life with the reversed gear now stored away in a drawer.

But how is this possible? When the gear was making its trip backwards through time, it was still undiscovered until 2020 and not in a drawer. In the movie they clearly show a drawer full of reversed objects from a future war.

Is this not a possible scenario?

Reverse causality is a bitch. Those objects would be destined to be removed from the drawer and moved to the turnstile that inverted them at some point in the future if their causality is to be preserved. They're probably also removed at some point in the past too, because they would not always be in that drawer forever. I imagine that anything would start rusting/breaking down after sufficient time, and that the lack of these objects noticed in modern times is probably proof that the Tenet organization is doing its job, whatever its job is.

Forward/backward interacting is starting to make my brain hurt now.

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