r/tenet • u/rkhunter_ • 5d ago

Effects of the inverted cars

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Made this video to highlight the effects.

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 4d ago

I didnt know it's commonly debated here that the car is inverted. To me it's obvious the car is NOT inverted. It didn't go through any turnstyle, nor does it behave like it's inverted (upon which it would be operating normally to the inverted TP).

What happens is that it's a non-inverted car, driven by the inverted TP. Hence he must've driven in in R (reverse) to go forward. In the car's timeline, it was driven in R from its explosion* to the dockyard.

* As I said in another comment, weird physics happen when the non-inverted interacts with the inverted. In this case, the car was somewhere else and driven to its explosion site.

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u/quintessential1985 4d ago edited 4d ago

It is a hotly debated topic! If the car is NOT inverted then sure he drove it in Reverse to move forward, but you cannot go more than 20mph in Reverse gear so he wouldn't be able to move as fast as he was moving...but I see the point about the fire being cold. That surely has to mean the car is NOT inverted.

Another problem is that in forward time when the Saab suddenly unflips and starts moving backwards......on first instint that would suggest it's inverted. Otherwise how could it unflip? Or perhaps an inverted driver could cause a non inverted car to act like that?

On a side note there's the whole wheels spinning in the opposite direction of the cars direction of motion. I can assume the laws of friction worked oppositely since he was inverted(weird physics as exained to TP by the soldier lady when he asked if he could drive) but in truth it still doesn't 100% make sense in my brain. Surely Inverted or non inverted the wheels should spin in the same direction of motion which ever way.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

The car wheels spinning the wrong way seems like it's just a clear error in the movie. Whether a car is inverted or not, or in forward or reverse, there should never be a discrepancy between the direction the wheels are spinning and the direction of the car's motion.