— Your father had to find another way to save the human race from extinction. Plan B. A colony.
— Why not tell people? Why keep building those damn stations?
— Because he knew how hard it would be to get people to work together to save the species instead of themselves. Or their children.
— Bullshit.
— You never would've come here unless you believed you were gonna save them. Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier. We can care deeply, selflessly about those we know, but that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.
— But the lie. That monstrous lie?
— Unforgivable. And he knew that. He was prepared to destroy his own humanity in order to save the species. He made an incredible sacrifice.
— No. No, an incredible sacrifice is being made by the people on Earth who are gonna die! Because in his arrogance he declared their case hopeless.
— Is there any possibility... I don't know... Some kind of way we can maybe all jump in a black hole? Gain back the years? Don't shake your head at me!
— Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but it can't run backwards. It just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.
— Okay.
— The beings that led us here, they communicate through gravity, right?
— Yes.
— Could they be talking to us from the future?
— Maybe.
— Okay. If they can...
— "They" are beings of five dimensions. To them, time might be another physical dimension. To them, the past might be a canyon that they can climb into
and the future, a mountain they can climb up. But to us, it's not, okay?
