The film draws on the hypothesis that positrons (antimatter) could be electrons moving backward in time.
Time travel in Tenet is not instantaneous; to go back one week, a person must "invert" and live through that week in reverse. This leads to "Temporal Pincer Movements," where two teams attack the same event from opposite directions in time. Scientific Concepts The film draws on the hypothesis that positrons
The narrative centers on the discovery of objects with "inverted" entropy that travel backward through time. to go back one week
The Protagonist (John David Washington) must stop Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), a Russian oligarch communicating with the future, from activating the Algorithm —a device capable of inverting the entire world's entropy, which would annihilate the past. which would annihilate the past.