While we are self distancing, here's some distraction. Read Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" (1998) and then watch Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, a film from 2016, based on Chiang's story.
Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella, and you can find it here. Chiang's soulful story is about aliens, variational principles of physics and free will.
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer.
Denis Villeneuve (born 1968) is a French Canadian film director, writer and producer.
You can watch the trailer of Arrival here.
And some interesting, relevant articles:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/10/arrival-review-amy-adams-jeremy-renner-science-fiction