Author: Jaconaazar Souza Silva
Position: Audiovisual Laboratory Technician – Federal Institute of Brasília (IFB), Recanto das Emas Campus
Project: XChronos
Date: April 2025
Abstract
This essay proposes a symbolic and philosophical reading of the film Interstellar through the conceptual lens of the XChronos project. Based on the premise that time is not a line that passes but a field we traverse with awareness, the analysis explores key elements of the cinematic narrative in dialogue with the concepts of Chronons, Hexachronons, and Metachronos.
Reinterpreting the film as a living metaphor for conscious temporal traversal, the essay reveals how Interstellar expresses an idealist ontology of time—where experience, meaning, and presence shape reality.
1. Introduction: Time as Mystery and Language
Interstellar is more than a science-fiction epic. It is an existential reflection on time, love, and the role of consciousness in the cosmos.
Likewise, the XChronos project proposes a symbolic redefinition of time:
not as an external flow, but as a subjective experience shaped by awareness.
Both works place the human being at the center of a cosmic journey—a path where time is not merely measured but felt; not something that passes, but something that reveals itself as we pass through it.
2. Chronons: The Time That Touches
In XChronos, Chronons are conceptual particles of subjective time. They are not counted in seconds, but in intensity.
This concept materializes vividly in the scene where Cooper watches years of video messages from his aging children. Only minutes passed for him—years passed for them.
Physical time and lived time collapse.
That scene is a cinematic Chronon:
time that touches, pierces, transforms.
Time there is not chronological—it is emotional, existential, ontological.
3. Hexachronons: The Convergence of Dimensions
In XChronos, Hexachronons are six-dimensional structures of experience:
- physical movement
- emotional state
- mental presence
- environmental context
- symbolic meaning
- cosmic synchronicity
The water-planet scene—where one hour equals seven years on Earth—is the perfect illustration.
Cooper, Brand, and Romilly face a relativistic dilemma where each decision resonates across dimensions:
- The loss of years with their families
- Emotions of guilt, urgency, and helplessness
- A hostile and unpredictable environment
- Acute awareness of time scarcity
- The weight of humanity’s fate
- Cosmic alignment of necessary events
This is a Hexachronon:
a symbolic vortex where time intensifies and converges.
4. Metachronos: The Mirror of Consciousness
Cooper’s entry into the tesseract at the film’s conclusion represents the deepest XChronos concept: Metachronos.
In the tesseract, Cooper no longer lives time—
he observes it.
He perceives the totality of his journey.
Moments are no longer sequential—they exist as layered simultaneities.
Time becomes:
- a library,
- a language,
- a mirror.
Metachronos is time reflected by consciousness.
It is the warrior seen by the philosopher,
the story seen by the narrator,
the self recognizing itself as a being in time.
This manifests in the communication with Murphy via Morse code.
The watch becomes symbol—and the symbol becomes a bridge.
5. Murphy’s Watch: A XChronos Artifact
In Interstellar, the watch transcends its function as an object. It becomes an interdimensional medium linking consciousness across timelines.
Within XChronos, it qualifies as a metachronic artifact:
an object that carries symbolic meaning, enabling consciousness to inscribe significance into the temporal field.
It is not time that reveals love.
It is love that reveals time.
6. Philosophical Convergences: Time, Consciousness, and Love
The temporal worldview in Interstellar aligns closely with the idealist structure of XChronos:
| Interstellar | XChronos |
|---|---|
| Time is relative, shaped by gravity | Time is subjective, shaped by consciousness |
| Love transcends space-time | Consciousness bridges symbolic temporal events |
| Tesseract as layered time-access | Metachronos as reflection on experiential flow |
| Watch as interdimensional signal | Symbolic artifact of temporal crossing |
Both frameworks reject mechanical time in favor of lived time.
7. Conclusion: The Dance of Being With Time
Interstellar invites us to perceive time as experiential mystery.
XChronos responds with a symbolic structure to decode it.
Both proclaim the same truth:
Time does not pass.
We pass through it.
This traversal may be marked by Chronons (intense moments), structured as Hexachronons (meaningful cycles), and contemplated through Metachronos (reflective awareness).
In the end, what matters is not how much time we have—
but how we touch time with our being.