> Isn't a big part of Arrival that the aliens don't experience time the same way we do? Or something along those lines. Yes, but an important detail in the plo

> Isn't a big part of Arrival that the aliens don't experience time the same way we do? Or something along those lines. Yes, but an important detail in the plot (possibly a spoiler) is that they experience time differently _because_ of the structure of their language, sort of an extreme outcome of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. A human learning their language will eventually experience time in the same way. Notably this is the pattern used by most of the stories in the collection that Arrival was derived from (Stories of your life and others). The author takes a phrase, hypothesis, etc and creates a story out of an extreme and concretized outcome from it. All of the stories in the collection are well worth reading IMO.