DraxCodes / tenet.txt

This is gonna take a min to type out but essentially. In the future the world is absolutely 100% fucked as far as humans are concerned, absolutely no way to fix it it’s just slow inevitable demise. However a scientist in the future eventually figures out how to invert time by inverting an objects entropy.. she makes this a reality which we come to know as the turnstiles. Once this breakthrough is made the government and military of the future come to think that they can fix everything by inverting the entire planet. This comes to be known as the algorithm which the same scientist who figured out inverting entropy creates. Once the planet is inverted it would overwrite the past, climate change would reverse, extinctions would revert.. etc. We of the past would be deleted or be overwritten but they’re thinking about themselves so that’s not something they give a shit about. However the scientist realise that what they’d actually be doing is creating a grandfather paradox. The algorithm would certainly overwrite the past but in doing so would instantly delete the future so instead of it being the slow inevitable demise, it would mean the instantaneous demise of the future as-well as the past. So to stop that the scientist turns her algorithm into a physical object and splits it up into several pieces while deleting all other traces of it. She inverts the pieces and sends them back to the place where she believed they would be the most safe (the nuclear waste depots). The military of the future figures out what she has done and while they’re unable to get her algorithm back, they instead decide to send back plans on how to create turnstiles to the main bad guy in the current timeline of the movie. The hope is that he can use the technology to find the physical pieces that she had inverted, put it all back together and set it off, inverting the earth and, in the eyes of the military of the future who thinks this is the correct path, save the earth. There is however a logical flaw in this plan which also plays into the story too. The whole premise of the movie is that the future is set once it has come in contact with the past. So by sending the algorithm back in time, she forced the military to also send the specs on how to make a turnstile back too which meant the bad guys of the past (the Russian dude) and the bad guys of the future (the military) had come into contact.. This created a set point which could not be changed, no matter what, the moment she chose to send it back in time to protect it, she also made her invention of the algorithm an inevitability. This is why the current good guys do what they do and have to constantly fight against the future to ensure the algorithm is kept safe and any attempts by the future to do anything in the past are thwarted. If she had instead chosen to completely destroy the algorithm and all knowledge pertaining to its creation, this inevitable creation of the algorithm would have never happened, the people of the future are 100% done for. They’d quite literally be no time for anyone else of the future to invent what she had in time, the super computer time needed to create the algorithm again alone would far surpass the time they humans race had left. But she didn’t choose to do that. She made a mistake by sending it back in time. Forcing this singular timeline to be inevitable and forcing the constant battle between the future and the past.