Author: Jaconaazar Souza Silva
Audiovisual Laboratory Technician – Federal Institute of Brasília (IFB), Recanto das Emas Campus
Project: XChronos
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 travel through with awareness, the analysis explores key elements of the cinematic narrative in dialogue with the concepts of Cronons, 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 and objective 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 measured but felt; not something that passes, but something that reveals itself as we pass through it.
2. Cronons: The Time That Touches
In XChronos, Cronons are conceptual particles of subjective time. They are not measured in seconds, but in intensities lived. In Interstellar, this concept materializes vividly in the scene where Cooper watches the video messages of his aging children.
Years have passed on Earth while only minutes have passed for him. Physical time and lived time collapse.
That scene is a cinematic Cronon: time that touches, pierces, and transforms.
Time there is not chronological — it is emotional, 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, and cosmic synchronicity.
The scene on the water planet — where one hour equals seven Earth years — is the perfect example. Cooper, Brand, and Romilly face a relativistic dilemma. Each decision echoes across multiple dimensions:
- They lose years with their children.
- They feel guilt, urgency, impotence.
- They are trapped in a hostile environment.
- They are aware of the scarcity of time.
- The moment holds the fate of humanity.
This is a Hexachronon: a symbolic vortex of intensified time.
4. Metachronos: The Mirror of Consciousness
Cooper’s entry into the tesseract at the film’s end represents the deepest XChronos concept: the Metachronos.
There, Cooper no longer lives time — he observes it.
He comprehends the totality of his journey. He sees moments as layered simultaneities.
Time becomes a library. Time becomes language. Time becomes a mirror.
Metachronos is the awareness of time lived.
The philosopher who watches the warrior.
The moment when one recognizes being a being-in-time.
This manifests in the communication with Murphy via Morse code — using the watch as a channel. The object becomes symbol — and the symbol, a bridge between dimensions.
5. Murphy’s Watch: A XChronos Artifact
In Interstellar, the watch is more than an instrument — it becomes a symbolic device connecting timelines.
In XChronos, it would be classified as a metachronic artifact: an object carrying interdimensional meaning, allowing 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 view of time expressed in Interstellar aligns profoundly with the idealist philosophy of XChronos:
| Interstellar | XChronos |
|---|---|
| Time is relative, shaped by gravity | Time is subjective, shaped by consciousness |
| Love transcends space-time | Consciousness is the symbolic bridge between events |
| Tesseract as access to layered time | Metachronos as reflection on experiential flow |
| Watch as interdimensional signal | Symbolic artifact of temporal crossing |
7. Conclusion: The Dance of Being with Time
Interstellar invites us to see time as experiential mystery. XChronos responds with a symbolic structure to decode it.
Both works, in their own way, proclaim the same truth:
Time does not pass. We pass through it.
This traversal may be marked by Cronons (intense moments), structured as Hexachronons (meaningful cycles), and contemplated through Metachronos (philosophical reflection).
In the end, what matters is not how much time we have —
But how we touch time with our being.
https://zenodo.org/records/15382665
10.5281/zenodo.15382665