2 Men Invent A Time Machine & Invest In Stocks Making Them Rich - YouTube

Story Recapped here. Today, I’m going to explain  a drama, sci-fi, thriller film called, “Primer.”  

Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.

It all starts with a voice recorder  narration by a man coming from the future.  

He tells a story of two meticulous, methodical,  educated yet ambiguous friends who accidentally  

discover a scientific breakthrough that is still  unknown — or perhaps not yet revealed to man.

It begins with an argument among four science  engineers who are planning on a side project  

for an attempt to create a device to counter the  effects of gravity. The plan is complicated. All  

of them work day jobs. They work 50 hours a week  with an average salary grade they can depend on.  

They argue on how much time each should devote,  not to mention the funds to proceed with the plan.  

As the tension grows, they are less likely  to come up with a solution. After spending  

considerable time squabbling, only Abe and  Aaron are left determined to take the challenge.

Abe, with a cautious and controlling personality,  and Aaron, a meddlesome and impulsive kind of guy,  

begin to plan out their counter measurements  in dealing with the adversities.  

Despite difficulties, they begin their  research and experiment in Aaron’s garage.  

After identifying the necessary components  for the project, due to financial inadequacy,  

they chop off parts from existing appliances  and take anything that is needed from their  

surroundings — thus creating a legitimate  particle accelerator device, a device that  

uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged  particles at very high speeds and energies,  

smashing the charged particles into its subatomic  state. The only thing left now is to acquire a  

palladium element. It is necessary for their  main approach to discard the coolant bath for  

the superconductors because the palladium element  can withstand heat up to 2,830 degrees Fahrenheit  

without altering its chemical property and form.  Due to this reason, they take the catalytic  

converter from Abe’s car which contains a small  amount of palladium necessary for their invention.  

Then, they take it to a machine shop to  fabricate a palladium steel sheet covering.  

After several weeks of meticulously placing  all the parts together, they successfully  

create the prototype and are finally ready  to put the particle accelerator to the test.

During the test, they place a  nesting egg doll inside the machine,  

set up the necessary scale, load  0.5 liters of Argon to the intake,  

and switch the device on. At first, the  machine seems stable; however, as they  

increase the electromagnetic field’s power, the  machine judders irregularly and short-circuits.  

They realize that they blew the batteries. After  a failed attempt, they decide to call it a day.

The next day, Abe wakes up in a particularly  odd manner, seemingly confused about the present  

time. Aaron calls to meet up with him, still  disoriented, Abe answers his call. After a  

few seconds, Aaron picks him up to bring him back  to his garage for a surprise. Inside the garage,  

Aaron tells Abe that he finally figured out how to  stabilize the machine. Aaron installs a regulator  

to control the intensity of the electromagnetic  field as he shows Abe how to operate the machine  

by gradually feeding power until it reaches its  maximum amplitude. As Abe shows his astonishment,  

Aaron further explains that by the time the  machine reaches its equilibrium, it creates  

enough source of energy to sustain its power on  its own just as he pulls out all the batteries.  

The discovery leads to another scientific dilemma.  They discuss each of their hypotheses. After  

several hours of discourse, both seem unable to  agree on a certain conclusion. However, what they  

both agree on is to keep it to themselves  first until further evidence is gathered.

In one event, Thomas Granger, father  of Abe’s girlfriend, shows up as their  

last best hope of funding. Abe takes the task of  quantifying and explaining the device to Granger.  

As weeks become months, their enthusiasm becomes  a slower realization that they are deep in debts.

Then one significant and fateful encounter, Abe  approaches Aaron who is sitting on a bench at the  

park, taking notes in his notebook. Aaron is  suspiciously wearing an unobtrusive earpiece.  

He asks Abe about his whereabouts because  he wasn’t able to reach him all morning.  

Abe strangely answers that he isn’t around. Aaron  doesn’t seem to mind his suspicious response.  

Then Abe suddenly gets emotional and starts to  talk about their long relationship as a friend.  

Acting suspicious, he then  presented a proposition to Aaron,  

telling him to follow everything exactly as he  says all throughout the day, then in return,  

he will show him the most important thing  that any living organism has ever witnessed.

Back in the garage, Abe shows Aaron the nesting  egg doll, enveloped with protein buildup secreted  

by an Aspergillus Ticor fungus, that he made  several experiments with the device. Then he  

brings Aaron to a Biologist to explain how they  speed up the buildup processes of proteins in  

laboratories. The Biologist illustrates how  they use a centrifuge to spin the fungus  

around for a couple of thousand rotations  in a day as the Biologist explains that it  

takes about a month to finally see a small  buildup. Then Abe further explains that the  

nesting doll that has accumulated the amount  of buildup for five days inside their machine,  

tantamounts to the amount of buildup for six years  given normal conditions. Seeing Aaron’s confusion,  

Abe decides to bring him back to the garage  and shows him the actual experiment instead.

First, he sets a mechanical watch at 6 P.M, then  he places it in the machine. After 6 minutes,  

they take the watch out, and as they calculate,  the watch’s time advances by 1,347 minutes. Abe  

does the same experiment for a digital watch, and  it shows identical results. Then Abe explains the  

A-to-B causal loop side-effect: The vertices are  where the lines begin and end. The vertices are  

being represented by Line A and Line B. While  inside the device where both lines meet, two or  

more particles that happen to be at the same point  in space at the same time are allowed to go both  

forward and backward in time. To further explain,  if a subject is placed inside Line A’s active  

magnetic field, it exits to Line B as the magnetic  field in Line B deactivates. Subsequently,  

as Line B’s magnetic field activates, the subject  immediately exits to Line A as it deactivates its  

magnetic field, overlapping the present time  in Line B — thus creating a Time Machine.

Feeling excited about their discovery, they  think of registering for copyright and publish  

their device. However, Aaron thinks of a  better plan but it needs a bigger model  

that could fit a person in. His plan is to  determine the flow of the stock market in  

the present time and use the invention to go  back in the past, invest in winning stocks,  

and earn big in the stock market as they  converge back into their own timeline.  

Indulged by the idea, Abe begins to refine his  proof-of-concept as he builds a larger model for  

the both of them as they address each issue they  could possibly encounter during the timewarp.  

After days of modification, they finally move  their base operation into a self-storage unit.  

After checking all the preparations  ready, they begin their first attempt.

After traveling six hours into the  past, though the attempt was successful,  

they sit to contemplate on their  experience. Then they devise an  

intricate plan for their big break  as Abe explains the proceedings.  

On the day, they first secure both of their cars,  one at the facility for their doubles to use,  

and the other, parked outside from their  double’s line of sight for them, the originals,  

to use when they return. They then step inside the  device and travel another six hours into the past.  

As they get themselves into the warp, they set  their timers to determine the exact time for them  

to intervene. They stay isolated in a hotel for a  few hours, so as not to interact or interfere with  

the outside world while their doubles are doing  their usual routine. As the time finally arrives,  

they start buying stocks from the highest margin  and they are able to succeed on their first day.  

Then Abe and Aaron repeat the six-hour time warp  multiple times over multiple days, earning big  

profits in stock trades with the help of their  future foresight of the market's performance.

After multiple attempts, the time travel is  already taxing on Abe and Aaron's bodies,  

as the two of them begin to notice  alarming side effects that take the  

form of progressive worsening of penmanship  and ear bleeding. Then one day, as a result of  

their inability to cope with the power of the  technological advancement they have in hand,  

they question each other about the odds of their  sense of morality. The idea has been spoken,  

and the words wouldn’t go back after they utter  it aloud. Realizing that there is no real need  

for it and no possible real-world application,  they confirm that there is no real advantage to  

gain from it — so the idea of immorality stays,  breaking down Abe and Aaron's close relationship.

As days pass, their suspicions grow against  each other, whether or not one of them might  

have leaked their biggest secret to someone. The  tension between the two men comes to a head when  

Abe decides to pick a losing investment in  the stock market without Aaron’s knowledge.  

Abe explains that they need to fail to avoid  suspicions, but Aaron is seemingly overly  

frustrated to understand Abe’s better judgment.  Later that night, their dispute is reinforced  

after an encounter with Thomas Granger, who  appears inexplicably two to three days unshaven  

that is in overlap with his original self. Aaron  then tells Abe that he saw Granger earlier in  

the day, clean-shaven, getting ready to attend a  function with his wife. Aaron theorizes that, at  

some unknown point in the future, Granger entered  the device with timeline-altering consequences.  

The permutations are endless. From this,  they deduce that the problem is recursive,  

but beyond that, they find themselves  admitting, defying against the course of nature.

Guilty of the alterations of the  events, Abe goes to the storage room;  

but somehow advances two more rooms from where  their time machine is stored and opens another  

storage room containing another device that he  calls “The Fail-Safe Device.” Then he travels  

into the past, going back four days before  the invention of their time-traveling machine.

Cumulative competing interference  wreaks havoc upon the timeline.  

Future-Abe sedates Original-Abe so he will never  conduct the initial time travel experiment.  

Then Future-Abe goes back to where he approaches  Original-Aaron who is sitting on a bench at the  

park as he takes notes in his notebook. This  time, he intends to dissuade Original-Aaron,  

but instead, he finds Future-Aaron  who has arrived in the scene first,  

listening to the pre-recordings of their past  conversations on his unobtrusive earpiece.  

As Future-Aaron expresses his intent to stop him  about his plans to sabotage the first creation  

of the time-travel device, Future-Abe faints at  his revelation, overcome by shock and fatigue.

Future-Abe wakes up. The two men briefly and  tentatively reconcile while they jointly travel  

back in time, experiencing and reshaping an  event where Abe's girlfriend Rachel Garner  

was nearly killed by a gun-wielding party  crasher. After many repetitions, now ever  

sufficient with knowledge of the party's events,  Aaron stops the gunman and becomes a local hero.

After the successful alteration, Aaron  considers a new life in foreign countries  

where he can tamper more broadly  on the timelines for personal gain,  

while Abe states his intent to remain in  town and try to sabotage their original  

experiment — Abe and Aaron ultimately part ways. As Future-Abe watches over Original-Abe,  

going to painstaking extremes to keep him unaware  of the future, Future-Aaron on the other hand  

shares his knowledge with Original-Aaron  by telling the story of two meticulous,  

methodical, educated yet ambiguous friends who  accidentally discover a scientific breakthrough  

that is still unknown — or perhaps not  yet revealed to man, on a voice recorder.

In conclusion, As both Abe and Aaron are  scientifically accomplished engineers,  

they are equally morally and ethically a failure  as men. When humanity’s greed takes over, even by  

benefiting the greatest gift one can receive, they  nonetheless become blindsided by it. — Thinking  

only for one’s personal gain, neglecting  the morality of altering one’s former self.