Does the Past Still Exist?

2024 ж. 10 Мам.
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Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a dimension, similar to space, and has profound consequences for the nature of time. Most importantly it leads to what has been called the block universe, a universe in which all moments of time exist the same way together. The future, the present, and the past are the same, it is just our perception that suggests otherwise.
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0:00 Intro
00:58 Space-time
02:09 Space-time diagrams
03:40 Special Relativity
05:05 The Relativity of Simultaneity
10:36 The Block Universe
12:46 The if's and but's
14:50 Sponsor Message

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  • I've been patiently waiting for Sabine to make a video on this topic. It's about time.

    @Master_Therion@Master_Therion Жыл бұрын
    • It had to happen.

      @brothermine2292@brothermine2292 Жыл бұрын
    • it's all in the past now

      @sparkyfromel@sparkyfromel Жыл бұрын
    • This video had always existed, you just needed to wait for it

      @FarfettilLejl@FarfettilLejl Жыл бұрын
    • I see what you did now.

      @MeppyMan@MeppyMan Жыл бұрын
    • Dad?

      @w3vjp568@w3vjp568 Жыл бұрын
  • The past haunts me every day, whether it still exists or not.

    @Gliese380@Gliese3804 ай бұрын
    • it is ALWAYS THERE

      @stephenpalmer-zh9dq@stephenpalmer-zh9dq4 ай бұрын
    • It's not the past doesn't haunt us, it is us who haunts the past.@@stephenpalmer-zh9dq

      @margaretmorrissey2714@margaretmorrissey27144 ай бұрын
    • Your thoughts are not you

      @stratocasterblue@stratocasterblue3 ай бұрын
    • Felt

      @SsuperNnova@SsuperNnova3 ай бұрын
    • If you start exercising everyday the bad thoughts will stop but you have to everyday, its a way of telling your mind what its going to do

      @stratocasterblue@stratocasterblue3 ай бұрын
  • Also notice that our memories can have differences in this manner. My memories of 50 years ago ( I am 80 ) are in a distant past...but the things I did, that I wish I hadn't, such as being rude as a teenager to someone, and we never forget, is as if it was yesterday.

    @richclarke1523@richclarke15234 ай бұрын
    • @richclarke1523 Hi Rich, it was so good to read your comment! I hope you can at least find some comfort in the fact you remember your rude teenage years with regret. It means you've gained the empathy that you lacked in the past. You should feel good about that, since so many people still have not evolved from their bad behaviour. And even worse they have no self awareness, and they have no clue of how others perceive them.

      @user-tf9yy5uq9p@user-tf9yy5uq9p3 ай бұрын
    • I have forgiven you

      @valicourt@valicourt18 күн бұрын
    • Because the human brain is unbelievably flawed

      @morganmiller7777@morganmiller777716 күн бұрын
  • The block universe idea has comforted me for years. All the dead people we know, are still doing things with us "now".

    @mikey1836@mikey18363 ай бұрын
    • REAL LADY SPEAKING OR AI ..

      @ashokkumar-se5sl@ashokkumar-se5sl2 ай бұрын
    • Yes as Energy or the Negative charged electrons but our human life span isn't a Mini Micro Blip coppered to all of all Existence. So it still nothing. Like the amount of Electromagnetive waves that Negitive Charge releases and we only see the visible light spark. it's absolutely Nothing to the whole

      @joelhubeny7554@joelhubeny75542 ай бұрын
    • It's "now", and the information of "now".

      @Flylikea@Flylikea2 ай бұрын
    • Now is just a Micro Nano Second moment moving through Space/time. it's gone before you can count it because Negative Energy is always moving towards the Positive.@@Flylikea

      @joelhubeny7554@joelhubeny75542 ай бұрын
    • Huh. U see dead people? 😮

      @princeofallnegros4035@princeofallnegros4035Ай бұрын
  • This is the first video I see on this channel. This is very refreshing to have explanations without all the usual background music, hyperactive ton of speech, or lots of graphics moving around! The calm tone of the video is very good for learning!

    @kurisutofusan@kurisutofusan Жыл бұрын
    • Same here. perfect for learning

      @whitetornado603@whitetornado603 Жыл бұрын
    • Absolutely love videos without background music.

      @sonyavincent7450@sonyavincent7450 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree, ton of video looking for watch time and less explanation.

      @rupes96@rupes96 Жыл бұрын
    • Because she's not American. I'm glad there's someone else who hates the "hyperactive tone of speech" 👏

      @mireazma@mireazma Жыл бұрын
    • I do love her channel's videos, and this is a big reason. However... the recent hydrogen power video would have greatly benefitted from 90% less "under pressure" gags. 🤷

      @MakiPavlidis@MakiPavlidis Жыл бұрын
  • This video made me realize how often we are watching the past. All KZhead videos we watch in the present were made in some recent or distant past and can be played actively as if they are now in the present. All media and entertainment that’s recorded is that way. I think that’s why stories play such an important role in human development - story is time travel.

    @christinablacken3043@christinablacken30436 ай бұрын
    • Thanks Capt Obvious

      @darith770@darith7705 ай бұрын
    • Only if its honest

      @UNIRockLIVE@UNIRockLIVE5 ай бұрын
    • ​@@darith770poor trolly mad in the comments

      @UNIRockLIVE@UNIRockLIVE5 ай бұрын
    • History books can take me back

      @stuart23969@stuart239694 ай бұрын
    • Memories too.

      @the_kombinator@the_kombinator4 ай бұрын
  • Even though I watched a lot of science videos it is the first time I heard about the block universe. Well explained. And now I am mindblown.

    @Juice-chan@Juice-chan2 ай бұрын
  • “What the hell am I looking at??” “You’re looking at now, sir. Everything you’re seeing is happening now”

    @JamesDevine@JamesDevine2 ай бұрын
    • One of the best parts of spaceballs

      @jamesjeffers1217@jamesjeffers121729 күн бұрын
    • CLASSIC! Well done, Sir!

      @grumpsoldguy2769@grumpsoldguy2769Күн бұрын
    • "We're at now, now."

      @jimm9157@jimm91572 сағат бұрын
  • I do love the dry humor woven into the ‘story telling’ and then referred to again randomly…a stand up comic schtick that amazingly turns a physics lecture into a conversation between friends. Brilliant.

    @SuperWingram@SuperWingram Жыл бұрын
    • Physicist humor =]

      @mokeish@mokeish Жыл бұрын
    • Does the past still exist? Depends on whether you remembered to hit save

      @davidjoseph7142@davidjoseph7142 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes, I love Sabine's dry humour also. The first few times I watched her videos I didn't notice it, because it's subtle -- but it's worth watching for.

      @miashinbrot8388@miashinbrot8388 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mokeish Not quite the same as math humour, but it's all relative. ;-)

      @miashinbrot8388@miashinbrot8388 Жыл бұрын
    • I love (and respect) her, but I think all the puns are horrible, borderlining disturbing.

      @lnyitrai@lnyitrai Жыл бұрын
  • Not exactly sure about what you said but i did enjoy the way you said it.

    @jimihendrix4376@jimihendrix43764 ай бұрын
    • she lost me at the intro when i didn't have enough time to read where the little hand and the big hand were pointing to.

      @bvbxiong5791@bvbxiong579123 күн бұрын
    • You have to be a Godless moron to think anything she said is worth more than falling asleep to.

      @jesusislord-ht1nj@jesusislord-ht1nj19 күн бұрын
    • Lmao

      @SailBoatJones@SailBoatJones18 күн бұрын
  • .. I am puzzled by time too.. having a nice memory is a divine gift and actually works like a time machine.. I am 54 now but one mental step back I am in a moment of time when I was 4 years old...and know how I felt on that moment... that is really really a gift... that is the only time travel we are capable of doing I think, but...let's listen to Sabine !

    @FCDHVleerstraat@FCDHVleerstraat2 ай бұрын
    • Except that psychology shows that our brains slightly change memories each time access them….

      @idiot.driverspittsburgh.ed8811@idiot.driverspittsburgh.ed88112 ай бұрын
  • Time is experienced two ways: Chronologically or simultaneously. If you wish you can look at a clock and not think about anything but the seconds that pass in order, or you can think of a number of things at the same time. To say that the past exists is to say that it exists perfectly, ready to be experienced and/or observed perfectly with nothing missing at all; if even the smallest thing is missing or altered, it's not the past- it's something else. If the past still exists, it would be nice to know how to access it just for entertainment and reflection if nothing else. Great topic!

    @bintangdomena@bintangdomena4 ай бұрын
    • You’re so brilliant 🥰❤

      @angelita1895@angelita18953 ай бұрын
    • The past is a series of events that cannot be replicated

      @angelita1895@angelita18953 ай бұрын
    • @angelita1895 Right!! Maybe versions of the past exist?? Then it would have to be acknowledged as something else- not the actual past!! Thank you again- you made my day!

      @bintangdomena@bintangdomena3 ай бұрын
    • I remember taking pictures of my grandmother one Thanksgiving in 2017 and with the family something felt special at that moment it was beautiful. The following year 2018 in September she passed away. I look at those pictures today of that special time and still feel like I'm in that moment!!! My mother passed away a month and a half later and I can still feel like I'm holding her hand on her last days, I feel it like it was yesterday!!!

      @edbaiza7757@edbaiza77572 ай бұрын
    • @@edbaiza7757 That's so beautiful and very powerful in many ways- my condolences on your loss and I'm so grateful for that wonderful memory captured in time; may it last forever in your heart and mind!

      @bintangdomena@bintangdomena2 ай бұрын
  • This starts to make sense when you think about how we percieve stars. If we observe one star that goes supernova 5 million light years away, and then another star that goes super nova 6 million light years away, each of those events happened a million years apart, and we just happen to be at the oberservable point to witness each at the same time.

    @FailBucketFilms@FailBucketFilms Жыл бұрын
    • This is the problem with knowledge and research. Some people are not naturally intelligent enough to comprehend it. Some ask “if a tree falls and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound” This stupid ‘but how do we know’ mentality reveals those who lack intuitive intelligence. It is a self-centric viewpoint. Light exists. Light travels at particular speed. It takes a relative (i’ll use the word) duration for light to travel a set distance at that speed. Yes those two events happened, at a duration we measured to be, a million years apart. These things are true. Focusing on the ‘meaning’ of this is self-centric. Those things happened and those were the factors. But that does not mean time exists or that the past still exists. The explosion that caused the light happened and then ceased, but the light created continues. I don’t know how or what exactly causes these phenomena or if existence is finite or not or even if there IS actually a creator, but it’s the ego that drives people’s theoretical wandering, beyond the realms that we are capable of. Time does not exist. It is merely a word we used to label a duration of moments. Time travel will never be possible in any way other than a technical way (ie. Australia are ‘technically’ in the future - but they are NOT in the future, they are in the same place, just at a different distance so are subject to different factors. Some people will get what i’m saying here, and some people aren’t capable, as they can only grasp things through technical language, limited to the definition of said language without the personal means to interpret the grey area. Objects exist before the labels we give them, and the objects are the inescapable truth, but the language can be inherently flawed

      @phantasticmrphasma9874@phantasticmrphasma9874 Жыл бұрын
    • I hadn’t even watched the video when i wrote that. 5 minutes in: “how do you know your phone is there? You don’t” 🤦🏻‍♂️ ‘I think therefore i am’ - the ultimate self-centric expression of ego through philosophy

      @phantasticmrphasma9874@phantasticmrphasma9874 Жыл бұрын
    • We don't even know if that is true.

      @mexreax4493@mexreax4493 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@mexreax4493 it's true. Light has a defined and observable speed. We can only see things through light. So anything that happens a far enough distance is the after image we are observing. Take the sun for example. It takes light 8 minutes to travel to earth from the sun. That means that if something like a planet passed Infront of the sun. We would still see the planet Infront of the sun when in reality the planet at that specific time has already moved out of the way of the sun.

      @bombomos@bombomos Жыл бұрын
    • Thar "old" light doesn't exist. What we see isn't the old, it's the new part of the old. This argument is parallel to the river argument. In philosophy, the river argument states that if you step into a river, you aren't stepping into the same river twice since its constantly changing, but yet we call it the same river. The same can be applied to this. We can label the light old since it comes from the "old star". But the light has changed many times before it got to you. Therefor the light isn't really old, it's new.

      @MuchCow9000@MuchCow9000 Жыл бұрын
  • Yes, it does! I'm sitting here in the English countryside, on a dark winter's night, looking high above me, into a sky full of stars; many of which are now dead - but because of my unfathomably distant vantage point, are still up there shining, still ‘alive’. It then follows that an alien being sat on the other side of the galaxy, looking our way through some kind of ‘advanced super telescope’, could maybe - just maybe, see my late mum and dad, meeting for the very first time on that dizzy late summer's evening they used to tell me all about. Believe it; somewhere, everything is still alive.

    @Chrisamusic1@Chrisamusic1 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for writing your message, I took more from your comment than the video. Very nice and comforting.

      @nautilus1872@nautilus1872 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nautilus1872 Thank you.

      @Chrisamusic1@Chrisamusic1 Жыл бұрын
    • I got a lot from your comment aswell, thank you

      @Jgriffin0808081@Jgriffin0808081 Жыл бұрын
    • Very thought provoking and a lovely comment.....good luck to you.

      @Muirton66@Muirton66 Жыл бұрын
    • That alien would be seeing your parents exactly the way we see distant stars- something that happened a long time ago and of which we can only see an image. That is still “reality”, but it’s beyond us in a way; we cannot interact with it or influence it.

      @Sashazur@Sashazur Жыл бұрын
  • Long ago a thought occurred to me about those films my teacher showed our class in grade school that being that the roll of film was all of time past and if you could pick a point or place along that roll is being a point in the past which you could hypothetically look at or even experience. Now it's interesting to see a smart person talking something in those same terms or similar thought exercise. Thank you for your 'films'.

    @kenmason6135@kenmason61352 ай бұрын
  • The strange things about getting old is that the intimate identification of here and now are slowly lost.One feels transposed into infinity more or less are alone.No longer in hope or fear, only observing.

    @parinyachintanakarn4953@parinyachintanakarn49535 ай бұрын
  • As a working class layman, thank you for making this topic more accessible to me.

    @hraith@hraith Жыл бұрын
    • The fact that time exists, no matter where you go in the cosmos, you can't outrun time. You can't not exist without it, or you won't exist to know that? Its all important, and may be the actual being, we call GOD. It witnesses everything at once. Isn't that God? Its every where at once.

      @Rockhoundingcolorado@Rockhoundingcolorado Жыл бұрын
    • @Dankenstein not a comedian.

      @Rockhoundingcolorado@Rockhoundingcolorado Жыл бұрын
    • Suddenly @Dankenstein is interested.

      @cdes68@cdes68 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Rockhoundingcolorado Nop time as we know it is just a mere creation to God. He is far beyond what can ever imagine.

      @arkeusalexander9054@arkeusalexander9054 Жыл бұрын
    • @@arkeusalexander9054 Well you, your just talking, I hear no theory other than cult Christianity?

      @Rockhoundingcolorado@Rockhoundingcolorado Жыл бұрын
  • I wish there were more people in the world who ask these questions... Instead of burying their heads in the sand or following the nightly news brainwash program.

    @bon6461@bon64613 ай бұрын
  • just when I thought I had it Sabine hits me with a "Anything exists now, elsewhere. all obervers viewpoints are equally valid = Everything exists now".

    @BokaDeus@BokaDeus3 ай бұрын
  • This woman can literally talk about anything and my concentration will never break

    @painisvergina3693@painisvergina36934 ай бұрын
    • Not ugly too.

      @fidacuca@fidacuca2 ай бұрын
    • @@fidacuca Thanks because she is AI and not a real person

      @rudolfvenema7815@rudolfvenema78156 күн бұрын
  • What blew my mind is that when Sabine gave examples of 'now', she knew I was watching the video. Amazing, great video.

    @edwardsp1916@edwardsp1916 Жыл бұрын
    • You hadn't disappeared yet.....

      @deciduousrex1219@deciduousrex1219 Жыл бұрын
    • It's uncanny

      @DukeJon1969@DukeJon1969 Жыл бұрын
    • 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

      @struggleboy2927@struggleboy2927 Жыл бұрын
    • This gonna blow your mind.. but when you read this you will be watching again 😱

      @dylanmorrow263@dylanmorrow263 Жыл бұрын
    • Time is irrelevant what happened already happened, what will happen will happen, understanding this will free you from the clock. If time was relevant talking about this would be a waste of time.

      @linuxbeastmaster9192@linuxbeastmaster9192Ай бұрын
  • One of my favourite of your videos. Fascinating and mind-blowing 😊

    @CionnFE@CionnFE12 күн бұрын
  • Luv the content, gunna buy her book, also yeah she so adorable

    @stichpy@stichpyАй бұрын
  • Time is a fluid, like a stream flowing in one direction. Anything with mass creates drag, causing time to bend around it like a big rock in the stream. Only things without mass can move freely in the stream at the same speed as the stream itself, and thus it doesn't experience time at all.

    @NeonVisual@NeonVisual Жыл бұрын
    • Oh didn't know u looked at this

      @gerogyzurkov2259@gerogyzurkov2259 Жыл бұрын
    • Where is the start of the stream and where is the end?

      @bootre9148@bootre9148 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@bootre9148 It began to flow into our universe at the big bang singularity, it doesn't have an end, but can flow out of our universe through black hole singularities where time effectively comes to a complete halt as the superfluid leaves spacetime.

      @NeonVisual@NeonVisual Жыл бұрын
    • So if I gain mass, I'll live longer? Sounds good to me.

      @themightybuzzard3088@themightybuzzard3088 Жыл бұрын
    • Or maybe it's all meaningless and isn't t special at all but useful to figure out. Maybe what really matters is that you are an observer and bring meaning to this vast messy whatchamacallit by simply living.

      @jpd8@jpd8 Жыл бұрын
  • When Sabine casually covers the question you have always been wondering about. 😁

    @AICoffeeBreak@AICoffeeBreak Жыл бұрын
    • did nobody ever suggest you that it is ugly to end sentences with prepositions flapping about pointlessly uselessly and uglily at the end of sentences

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl Жыл бұрын
    • @@vhawk1951kl you are missing the word “to” in your sentence, and “did nobody” is awkward phrasing, I would have gone with “has anybody”

      @wiseguy8828@wiseguy8828 Жыл бұрын
    • @@wiseguy8828 Ah, if you please, so the fcuk what?

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl Жыл бұрын
    • @@vhawk1951kl There needs to be a comma between pointlessly and uselessly. Plus a capital letter at the start of your sentence and a full stop to close your sentence.

      @peanutnutter1@peanutnutter1 Жыл бұрын
    • @@peanutnutter1 from where do you get such weird ideas? - I don't give a damn about nonsense and trivia like that.

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl Жыл бұрын
  • World class! I enjoy every minute of your intellect honesty and humor. Bravo and thank you!

    @SurrenderPink@SurrenderPink2 күн бұрын
  • I don't know the IRS seams to hang on the past alot

    @sabbath1136@sabbath1136Ай бұрын
  • Immediately after watching this, I watched a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut, the author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and numerous other excellent novels. If for some reason you are unfamiliar with this book, it is about a man who becomes "unstuck in time". I read it many years ago. And it is the perfect literary accompaniment to Sabine's lecture.

    @mengel419@mengel419 Жыл бұрын
    • Heh! Timequakes!

      @dixonmooremusic@dixonmooremusic Жыл бұрын
    • Kilgore Trout - "ting a ling"

      @danovantuyl7911@danovantuyl7911 Жыл бұрын
    • Read the book, and, saw the film, both several times. I love that story...

      @syndrome1965@syndrome1965 Жыл бұрын
  • Whether it still physically exists, or not, much of my past will haunt me forever. But I try to stay positive. 😎

    @rb032682@rb032682 Жыл бұрын
    • Cannabis tincture helps when dealing with my past.

      @rb032682@rb032682 Жыл бұрын
    • Word

      @alexbauman4203@alexbauman4203 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@rb032682 ya just get high, that's the answer 🙄

      @petey611@petey611 Жыл бұрын
    • Gay

      @joshdean5867@joshdean5867 Жыл бұрын
    • I feel your comment. I for one hope the timeline runs out without being recorded so that once I pass my existence and all I’ve done disappears with me. It’s not that I don’t have a good life and enjoy my life. I’ve made mistakes that bring shame. But I’m 51 and I’m getting tired. I don’t want to be an old soul. A long rest without being revisited is what I want.

      @vf12497439@vf12497439 Жыл бұрын
  • Dr Sabine I graduated grade 9 With flying colors I can build a building from the Anchor bolts to the puripute You are so awesome Gary from Winnipeg

    @garytighe1822@garytighe18223 ай бұрын
  • I might greatly misunderstand this video. But it satisfies me greatly. I have, as I'm sure have many others, previously thought of the experience of a lower dimensional being in contact with a higher dimension. the conclusion has been that a lower dimensional being sees a "slice" of the higher dimension. So my conclusion of how a four dimensional "ball" would look like "passing through" our perception would be a three dimensional ball growing in size and then shrinking out of existence. I'm not sure if my realization is correct now, but I've been wrong to think of an object passing through our perception. The whole world does. Each moment that passes we see a new slice of the fourth dimension. A completely new part of the threedimensional space.

    @ersia87@ersia873 ай бұрын
  • It's so clear when you explain it. I think I'll be coming back to this video often. The idea that (at least) the past always exists is the only way I've been able to cope with the loss of my loved ones.

    @helensotiriadis@helensotiriadis Жыл бұрын
    • It's a called a liner existence. We come from the past, as the future moves into the past. It would be neat to go back and fix things.

      @johnbockelie3899@johnbockelie3899 Жыл бұрын
    • But what good is that if we can’t revisit these events

      @SupportTheLittleGuy@SupportTheLittleGuy Жыл бұрын
    • I always wonder what happens to today when it becomes yesterday!

      @tayjones8552@tayjones8552 Жыл бұрын
    • If you can remember, they're not gone. That itself is proof enough. But the thing is, the past and future have never and will never exist, yet your loved ones have. They are not bound by space and time anymore, as we won't be when we pass. I recommend Rupert Spira or Bernardo Kastrup for further, more precise information. And I'm sorry for your loss. This won't fix the pain, but it might help you accept it.

      @juliai3956@juliai3956 Жыл бұрын
    • @@SupportTheLittleGuy maybe we can! With drugs? Maybe one of this nerds can help us travel back in time, i could see my dead wife and have a good coffee with her... maybe the solution is just a shot to the head, but we have options at least

      @pedroroggla8129@pedroroggla8129 Жыл бұрын
  • I will have to watch this multiple times to understand my own example of this to confirm that this video is correct. I love this type of content.

    @nihal114@nihal114 Жыл бұрын
    • to 114: all it means is that when something happens (the "now"), it takes time before you see it. Because it depends on the light reaching your eyes, which takes time. So, you are late seeing it. Therefore, when you do finally see it, the event or some thing may not even be there any longer. Or it's in the next "now" that you don't yet see. So we are always already in the past. This is more obvious at long distances. For beings living on a planet a biilion light years away from us, Brahms 1st Symphony has not yet been composed or heard. It's still in their future! They will hear it in some millions of years. They will observe it then. If they're as smart as Sabine, they will know that Brahms' 1st was written long ago, by those called "humans". But it's not true in this sense: they may well see my grand- parents in some millions of years but my grand- parents are no longer living their organic life, and not being conscious. The distant inhabitants will not be able to insert themselves into their lives.

      @nicolasdelaforge7420@nicolasdelaforge74206 күн бұрын
  • This has always been my favourite video of yours.

    @JPlokford@JPlokford3 күн бұрын
  • Wow!! Beautifully presented and explained video!! 🌟☀️🚀✨️

    @grahamrich3368@grahamrich33682 ай бұрын
  • Thanks Sabine!❤ Your videos are very nice. They make me feel like I have an understanding of the topics you cover

    @stilltraceable6753@stilltraceable67534 ай бұрын
  • Once again you have hit it out of the park. Grateful for the clear way you explain the observer. It leaves a straight path forward. Or maybe this is it. Thank you so much.

    @Quroxify@Quroxify Жыл бұрын
  • Sabine good to see you back

    @user-nn1vk4rt8n@user-nn1vk4rt8nАй бұрын
  • Every instance exists, but each version of us experiences it ONCE and as the moment changes so do we with it .... SO A DIFFRENT VERSION OF US , IS ALWAYS EXPERIENCING THAT MOMENT ...

    @BIGUS_PENUS@BIGUS_PENUS23 күн бұрын
  • I just bought your book, “Existential Physics”. I can’t wait for it to arrive! You are such an inspiration to me.

    @allisonharwell7591@allisonharwell7591 Жыл бұрын
    • I think you should look for a refund on the book . Anybody that would use that Albert Einstein as some kind of example in a physics sense of the word is more than CLUELESS . Einstein was. created by the J's in the same way Pop -acts are created today. !

      @taichihead42@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
    • If I understand correctly, your book arrived at the same moment you bought the book.

      @blubbietweeduizend@blubbietweeduizend Жыл бұрын
  • OMG this is a truly incredible video, best one I have seen on the subject. This really is an incredibly good lecture. I have been studying this subject for many years, back then most of what I worked with was in Physical Review D and books. Some great books out there got me interested in physics and math, but I am very impressed by this video and the deep subjects you talk about. I was a math physics major, though the truth is that most of these fascinating concepts can be understood through thought alone. The math is certainly interesting. I had to see how it worked. The Tipler cylinder was my first interest, in the math model it is infinite in length so it does not collapse into a black hole. Anyway we know that time like coordinate becomes spacelike and spacelike becomes timelike, but I had to see the math. I used to talk to Tipler, and Gott on the phone way back, then later I got into Caltech though I did not go. In any case I study this stuff for fun, and this video is magnificent. BRAVO.

    @adrianamatlack532@adrianamatlack532 Жыл бұрын
  • My heart skipped a beat when I saw that face at 3:35. Didnt expect horror from a science video. it was terrifying. I love it!

    @Astronet2030@Astronet2030Ай бұрын
  • How is prerogative dreams possible. To have a strange dream that leaves you puzzled but 7 years later comes true in every detail. How can this be?

    @johncurtis5367@johncurtis53676 күн бұрын
  • I very much love your method for explaining things to us. Great job, and keep up the excellent work!

    @tommyhawks856@tommyhawks856 Жыл бұрын
  • Its 3.00am and I couldn't sleep. Just watched this video and at long last I understand Einsteins Relativity theory. It's like a mist had cleared. After decades of uncertainty over it you have now explained it! Thank you so much!!!

    @tonycole3532@tonycole3532 Жыл бұрын
    • That will be $1.00 Now what that bill is worth is relative to the year you give it out.

      @Mr.Robert1@Mr.Robert1 Жыл бұрын
    • It's exactly 3:38 for me, theoretically, me and you have experienced something in our lives that contributed to the experience just a few minutes a part we just went through, how interesting

      @michaellongstreet4876@michaellongstreet4876 Жыл бұрын
  • Time is always discussed in terms of observing the light emitted from the event reaching the observer. After that, some graphics tweaking.

    @ahmetgazi3896@ahmetgazi389625 күн бұрын
  • The past does exist but we cannot change it, if we somehow can it turns into a different timeline. We can’t travel into the future because it has not been written/happen. If we can that means somehow we living another life where that future is already written.

    @steveg9088@steveg90882 ай бұрын
    • I agree it is possible to travel to other alternative time lines but as you say and I believe theoretically that it can not be changed also be careful if you or I or for that matter anyone else were in that time line keep a very low profile information however slight from annother time line could be extremely dangerous

      @clifftanton8385@clifftanton838512 күн бұрын
  • Every moment exists as its own point time passing over like a film layer giving us the illusion of life

    @TylerSmith-sd2oc@TylerSmith-sd2oc Жыл бұрын
    • except there's no film to review.

      @GP-yc2it@GP-yc2it Жыл бұрын
    • @@GP-yc2it different dimension

      @kushkushbabyy@kushkushbabyy Жыл бұрын
    • @@GP-yc2it its not about the review. Its about the experience.

      @TylerSmith-sd2oc@TylerSmith-sd2oc Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah what he said 👏

      @kevinrice7635@kevinrice7635 Жыл бұрын
  • Just discovered Sabine. I love her dead pan humor and style. Being a student of Non Duality (Advaita Vedanta) I find her examples so strikingly similar to the consciousness only model that it helped me understand the notion of consciousness contracting itself via the observer to experience 3rd dimensional reality and how all there is is now and our experience of this now. Thanks

    @anthonyw6488@anthonyw6488 Жыл бұрын
    • "Now" is a mysterious phenomenon, it is an infinitesimal small point in the time. Most of the time we are constantly moving from the past into the future and "now" is a very small connection between these two. how big is the "now"? is it a second? or millisecond, or a nanosecond or a .............? no end to it. the passed femtosecond at this moment has also become the part of "past" but our consciousness still perceives it as present. the "NOW" perceived by us is an illusion created by our limited perception, our conscious mind throws itself to a time span which includes the past and future, and perceives it as "now". it depends upon the limited speed of our neurons in the portion of our brain which senses the time as "NOW" and when a person can be in that moment of "Now" and flowing together with it, i think that is called as "Meditation".

      @dharmendrasharma6070@dharmendrasharma6070 Жыл бұрын
    • @@dharmendrasharma6070 there is no past and future. No one has ever experienced the past so it must be as illusion of sorts. The now is beyond space time and not a piece of it as you’ve stated

      @anthonyw1499@anthonyw1499 Жыл бұрын
    • 'humor'

      @posmoo9790@posmoo9790 Жыл бұрын
    • If there's no past how can we take a video or snapshot of it and keep it forever? If there's no future how do we progress with how we grow? How flowers grow/die? This is ridiculous to think these things don't exist

      @dissonantchaos7724@dissonantchaos7724 Жыл бұрын
    • @@dharmendrasharma6070 "now" may not have an upper limit but it sure Does have a lower one। It cannot be less than plank's time

      @mayanktripathi8726@mayanktripathi8726 Жыл бұрын
  • And pluck till time and times are done, the Silver Apples of the Moon, the Golden Apples of the Sun. .."The Song of Wandering Aengus." Willuam Butler.

    @Helidon78@Helidon782 ай бұрын
  • Yeah, but there's always a position in space where "now" is symmetrical regardless of other observers. This means that differences from symetrical observation are an illusion caused by not being in the correct spot for that particular observation. Lol, this means that you can use the 2 illusion observations to calculate the coordinants for the symmetrical observation for that particular set of events.

    @davidrpayton@davidrpayton3 күн бұрын
  • I love your big ole brain and thank you for adding some humor! I actually think I understood this and that’s bc you did a great job of explaining without too much diversion (which takes my small brain off track and then I can’t get back there.)

    @mewlipaws8947@mewlipaws8947 Жыл бұрын
  • Whenever I think about the past, it just brings back all kinds of memories.

    @desmoface@desmoface Жыл бұрын
    • Most of them are now classed as false.. so we are told.

      @timmyjohnston7247@timmyjohnston7247 Жыл бұрын
    • i think of mammaries

      @RainmanCT@RainmanCT Жыл бұрын
    • Which are brought to the present as thoughts. But what if thinking about the future..? Still thoughts, no memories. But hope??

      @fu2588@fu2588 Жыл бұрын
    • This isn't about memories, although many seem to be making that mistake, for some weird reason Memory is your neuron circuits reinterpretation of a previously stored data. It is not same as the object's existence. So, you may have your cat in your memory but that memory is not same as the actual cat you see when you record that memory.

      @senor2930@senor2930 Жыл бұрын
    • The fact that time exists, no matter where you go in the cosmos, you can't outrun time. You can't not exist without it, or you won't exist to know that? Its all important, and may be the actual being, we call GOD. It witnesses everything at once. Isn't that God? Its every where at once.

      @Rockhoundingcolorado@Rockhoundingcolorado Жыл бұрын
  • I'm living the same time all my life and millions of different events. But I am still here at the same time. The same place everything is changing with me.

    @tobywestfall2970@tobywestfall29702 ай бұрын
  • Absolutely, it only depends where.

    @michalturlik7309@michalturlik73097 күн бұрын
  • I love the way you tell this and the subtle humor you put in between.

    @henkstel7175@henkstel7175 Жыл бұрын
  • All events exist now. 🤯 That is just crazy. Anything that's ever happened can be happening right now as long as you're in the right place at the right time.

    @bustymcnutters801@bustymcnutters801 Жыл бұрын
    • Except you are wrong, because ALL events are relative to the observation. If something is in the past, it can't be now BY DEFINITION. The past can't be now or it would be the present. It is that simple.

      @bruzote@bruzote Жыл бұрын
    • Both statements are partially wrong. Watch some Carlo Rovelli.

      @monabear7287@monabear7287 Жыл бұрын
    • Do we not live in the past because if you live in a house for instance that was built in the past and past actions are what we are living now the car you drive was built in the past being used in the present what we have already done in the past is our present the future depends on actions on actions of today the present actions of the past

      @fritzforsthoefel8031@fritzforsthoefel8031 Жыл бұрын
    • that's not how it works. the only event that happens to you "now" are light hitting your eye, the light reflecting events. the event that you see in your eye, isnt happening now. anything thats ever happened cant happen now.

      @venuae@venuae8 ай бұрын
    • ​@@bruzoteUnless you consider the observer is God. Who exists in past, present and future. Therefore everything exists " now " for God. God is the ultimate observer. All of time exists simultaneously.

      @NeedMorePlebs@NeedMorePlebs14 күн бұрын
  • Yes, I believe it does, as does the future, on a course, heading, and distance that we cannot reach at sub-light speeds.

    @jamescoulthard2208@jamescoulthard220814 күн бұрын
  • I so want the Trickster to show us that the speed of light is not a fixed constant. CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS

    @PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS12 күн бұрын
  • The information earned a thumbs up. Sabine's sense of humor earned a subscription. Sharing this with my software dev buddies.

    @7th_CAV_Trooper@7th_CAV_Trooper Жыл бұрын
  • Great video Sabine. Thanks for the added perspectives on things.

    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh@JamesLaserpimpWalsh Жыл бұрын
  • Wonderful explanation. It's the first chapter of her book 'Existential Physics', which is one of the best books I've read.

    @Thomas-gk42@Thomas-gk423 ай бұрын
  • I believe that everything throughout history is still happening on the time line. At least I hope it does, then nothing really ever ends.

    @whogirl9762@whogirl97625 күн бұрын
  • thank you for simplifying these things. i almost feel like i vaguely see how these things fit toghether

    @michaeljfigueroa@michaeljfigueroa Жыл бұрын
  • I truly enjoyed this, the dry humor, the information, and the speech. It’s very unique. I would gladly take a masters class with her as the teacher.

    @Theafterhourshow@Theafterhourshow Жыл бұрын
    • I agree. Her jokes land so weirdly funny.

      @aogwaro@aogwaro Жыл бұрын
    • If you know any, ask a grownup to explain to you why nothing can be " *very* or nearly(as is occasionionally heard) unique" - see also *very* pregnant or *very* dead. I am a little puzzled that you appear unable to understand that, but seemingly you have no idea what unique means.

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl11 ай бұрын
    • @@vhawk1951klsomeone can be very pregnant, and something can be very unique. Something can’t be very dead though.

      @MrZorx@MrZorx10 ай бұрын
    • @@MrZorx Only an imbecile would say that

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl10 ай бұрын
    • @@MrZorx Ask a grownup that speaks English to help you; pregnant and unique are absolute terms like on or off and dead -thus very unique and very pregnant are no more possible than very, on very off or very dead. Whoever says to you than an object is very or nearly unique is either an imbecile or an American, but then most Americans are imbeciles and I have never met one that can speak English similiter very or nearly or quite pregnant, and anyone that tells you otherwise simply cannot speak English and is a halfwit. You will occasionally hear 'very' pregnant when used to describe a woman that is obviously pregnant, but it is simply bad English. Unique means that there is *only* one which it either is or is not which is absolute, but you will hear the lower classes and those that are simply witless say nearly unique and that *because*they are witless members of the lower classes and do not understand what unique means, nor understand anything about absolute and relative terms.

      @vhawk1951kl@vhawk1951kl10 ай бұрын
  • Neither your now nor my now is actually "now". The experienced now can only be a duration. The actual now cannot be observed for certain events must occur before the observed now is registered (reaction, perception, recognition, etc.) and these all take time. The "eternal now" or actual now can have no time at all, for it is sheer potential. Perhaps it's like lightspeed itself. The actual present has no time and no space and only comes to seem to have such once the observation has taken place, yet it has enormous potential energy. (Related to the observer effect that causes the collapse of the wavelength superposition of potential?)

    @gregorynixon2945@gregorynixon294515 күн бұрын
  • The movement of universe creates the time. If the movement is a combination of shrinking and expanding yes past may happen again after the future again and again.

    @bluefisshh2377@bluefisshh237710 күн бұрын
  • This is a beautiful debrief of Einstein's theory of relativity. I love KZhead and content creators this is amazing

    @chicchi1682@chicchi1682 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for this. Your presentation is quite enlightening. As well as entertaining. I love your style, your presentation.

    @bobwasilewski5768@bobwasilewski5768 Жыл бұрын
  • Got it, it makes perfect sense, the theta of trigoviani seens to hold true the way you explained but only works for nth tunnel d-1.

    @mm-vg7dm@mm-vg7dm21 күн бұрын
  • More and more evidence suggests we live in a simulation, the double slit experiment is an intriguing subject on that matter.

    @edwardkennedy1567@edwardkennedy15672 ай бұрын
  • I have watched many videos about physics trying to understand all this. Without doubt, this one is the best explanation in simple terms that I have come across

    @sergifernandezmiranda1311@sergifernandezmiranda1311 Жыл бұрын
    • Watch DR WHO lol 😆

      @glyndaley5844@glyndaley5844 Жыл бұрын
    • Better look forward.

      @tricisport8259@tricisport8259 Жыл бұрын
  • I love the joke about Alice agreeing to be friends with you said with such seriousness 😂 Little things like this make this video even more amazing

    @RyanMcLeanau@RyanMcLeanau Жыл бұрын
  • 3d Representation was amazing

    @user-iv6ft3jv2o@user-iv6ft3jv2o18 күн бұрын
  • This is the silliest thing ever. Sabine is just one of many who are misguided by the how their own existential conflicts are driving their beliefs and behaviors.

    @morganmiller7777@morganmiller777716 күн бұрын
  • Such a cool coincidence that I found this video today! Just yesterday I was thinking to myself that the past is no more real than fantasy. Specifically I was thinking about my city, the version of it that existed 20 years ago, and how that place may exist in my mind and the minds of others, but so do Oz and Wonderland, and none of these is a place one can go. I’m glad to be challenged and informed on this at the same time!

    @JC-yy8iv@JC-yy8iv Жыл бұрын
    • I can understand how you would proceed if the past is fantasy but you can't take it too far because there's one key difference. That difference is things that happened in the past actually did happen and they have an influence on the present and since things that were done or bills or said in the past can still be a witness today that that means the past is never truly gone.

      @charlessands6933@charlessands6933 Жыл бұрын
    • @@charlessands6933 The past played a big part in what's going on today and why.

      @Mr.Robert1@Mr.Robert1 Жыл бұрын
    • Which city are you referring to?

      @studas2011@studas2011 Жыл бұрын
    • Ah. Yes... If only the past was really gone... but alas the past is now and the past is the future. It is all ONE. Peace my friend.

      @benjaminroe311ify@benjaminroe311ify Жыл бұрын
    • The only caution I would add is...the past does, in fact, exist now for some place/time, but this is not necessarily compatible with saying that it exists in our minds. Our minds do not contain the past. They contain perceptions or conclusions only. They are mere interpretations and can be and likely are ALWAYS "wrong." Example: Newton was wrong when he came up with his equations and laws. He thought he was right. Many thought he was right. He was, indeed, possibly partially right, but he definitely was not correct. Nor is ANY perception that we have actually the "real" correct perception. It is both incomplete AND wrong, due to our lack of knowledge and our incorrect assumptions that some things are one way, when they aren't.

      @johnowens22@johnowens22 Жыл бұрын
  • I remember reading a sci-fi story where scientists used old photographs to go back in time. Something about the photos capturing the space/time co-ordinates.

    @63mckenzie@63mckenzie Жыл бұрын
    • Red Dwarf Time Slides?

      @humansrants1694@humansrants1694 Жыл бұрын
    • Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson? There was also a 1980 movie based on this book called Somewhere in Time.

      @Aggiemcdee@Aggiemcdee Жыл бұрын
    • Badass.

      @impeachy1518@impeachy1518 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Aggiemcdee Christopher Reeves! He focuses on a portrait of an "actress" from the 1800s and travels back in time for some 'congress.'

      @impeachy1518@impeachy1518 Жыл бұрын
    • Butterfly effect ?

      @Thorcat001@Thorcat001 Жыл бұрын
  • My past continues to haunt me to the brink of insanity

    @BostonSteve922@BostonSteve9222 ай бұрын
  • At 3:35, that flash of the creepy monster was a nice touch! 😁

    @edwardx4979@edwardx49793 ай бұрын
  • Thank you very, very much for your light-hearted, nicely informative videos AND your collaboration with the brilliant group! I have tried out brilliant, like it, and have recommended it to others.

    @robinkleinsteuber5217@robinkleinsteuber5217 Жыл бұрын
    • Why does she look like she wants to stab someone? Lol

      @residentfelon@residentfelon Жыл бұрын
    • 👋 i hope you’re safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace ❤ 🕊🕊 all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson originally from California 🌟🌟🌟🌟 and you where are you from if I may asked?💭💭

      @dr.christopherjohnson1406@dr.christopherjohnson1406 Жыл бұрын
  • Perception is key. Maybe everything is happening simultaneously but we can only perceive in a linear fashion.😊

    @kyelsavage6296@kyelsavage6296 Жыл бұрын
    • Do you have any literature about this theory? genuinely interested

      @helafed@helafed Жыл бұрын
    • @@helafed I had read this years ago but I don't have the source material anymore. :(

      @kyelsavage6296@kyelsavage6296 Жыл бұрын
    • @@kyelsavage6296 or maybe you just perceive that you had read this and it was really your own intuitive senses.....

      @alpha-omega2362@alpha-omega2362 Жыл бұрын
    • so, it's almost like your saying everything is in some ethereal form all scrambled up and we can not in our primitive minds perceive it and thus is must be laid out flat (so to speak) in linear form....with one thing happening after another but in actuality it could be happening parallel ...geez,,, I'm getting a headache......

      @alpha-omega2362@alpha-omega2362 Жыл бұрын
    • If NOW some alien, on some planet a million light years away, fired a signal, did that event happen NOW or when the signal is perceived by earthlings?

      @ab1858@ab1858 Жыл бұрын
  • I changed my mind Dr hosesenfelder I love your channel

    @garytighe1822@garytighe18223 ай бұрын
  • I totally get it now I understand my place in the Universe. I take up space most of the time, the rest of the time my head is in space.

    @Anti-Infringement-American@Anti-Infringement-AmericanАй бұрын
  • I've been metal detecting for 35 years. Each time I find a roman coin or medieval buckle I'm always aware I'm the first to see this light since it was lost. A direct link between Two periods of time.

    @1220b@1220b Жыл бұрын
    • Time is⁸ nothing but a measurement, Ubuntu it has no matter, atoms, volume, mass. 6TH GRAVITY can slow down clock's or other mechanisms that measure time but it can not have a effect on time.

      @larrywright1589@larrywright1589 Жыл бұрын
    • @@larrywright1589 'time is a measurement' and 'gravity slows down what the measuring devices measure' don't go well with 'gravity has no effect on time'

      @christian2i@christian2i Жыл бұрын
    • When coin was laying underground , time was frozen. But when you find it, time for coin began go fastest, coin began moving. Conclusion: time is energy. i've been writing program's also for 35 year's. Each time i write line " if i found coin then BEGIN ... END" i know that time for part between BEGIN .. END is frozen but not between if and BEGIN. And when found, then energy of processor touch BEGIN and time go fast between BEGIN .. END. Surely in computer time is energy of processor.

      @user-ys3ev5sh3w@user-ys3ev5sh3w Жыл бұрын
    • @@user-ys3ev5sh3w how long did the coin lie under ground???

      @larrywright1589@larrywright1589 Жыл бұрын
    • @@larrywright1589 time was frozen, therefore have not longitude . It's link between Two periods. Answer: 0s for coin. But for other's i don't know. Time is abstract meaning of energy. Time is called always time, but energy is usually called differently for different kinds of energy.

      @user-ys3ev5sh3w@user-ys3ev5sh3w Жыл бұрын
  • I could listen to Sabine talk about this topic, time and time again.

    @aobdesigned3881@aobdesigned3881 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm normally pretty skeptical but the subtle turn to the right shows it is indeed your good side

    @darthtorment@darthtorment26 күн бұрын
  • Sabine now and Sabine was about 16 minutes ago are the same she is still speaking without moving her jaws.

    @khigia984@khigia98425 күн бұрын
  • I've watched many videos on this topic. This is the first one that explained it in a way that I understood.

    @leahkangas2173@leahkangas2173 Жыл бұрын
  • Great explanation and i have to say you are absolutely stone cold with the jokes they are fantastic. Your stoic delivery is delightful. Perfect❤

    @SimVikGo@SimVikGo4 ай бұрын
  • The past is nothing but a fleeting memory. Even after I hit send on this message, it’s in the past and but a memory.

    @SimRacingVeteran@SimRacingVeteran2 ай бұрын
  • I am puzzled not by whether past still exists, but by how she eats without separating the upper and lower jaw

    @rollinmc5427@rollinmc542729 күн бұрын
  • The past existed once as now...This topic is too mind bending, and perplexing for someone like myself to comprehend. Great video 👏 You are a brilliant woman 🙏

    @vinnymarchegiano@vinnymarchegiano Жыл бұрын
    • Excellent treatment of that point in "Spaceballs".

      @williambowling8211@williambowling8211 Жыл бұрын
    • @@williambowling8211 Great minds think alike. Now? When? Just now!! But that's then?

      @vinnymarchegiano@vinnymarchegiano Жыл бұрын
    • It's similar to calculus where you integrate each slice of a graph. With time each slice is a moment. When you 'integrate' them all together you get regular time.

      @LegendLength@LegendLength Жыл бұрын
  • I have pre-ordered your book, Sabine. Your first book is simply amazing. A real page-turner. I can hardly wait for your new one to come. Only a few days now!

    @edreusser4741@edreusser4741 Жыл бұрын
    • 556666666666

      @mala24890@mala24890 Жыл бұрын
  • 41 years ago I made a horrible mistake. Every year I go back to that exact spot at the same time because its as close as I can get to that mistake. So close yet so far away.

    @fortyseven1832@fortyseven1832Ай бұрын
  • I was watching this and had a thought about "now", as it regards to time. Since nothing moves faster than the speed of light and when we flip a light switch we see the light instantly, I think that means time moves forward at the speed of light.

    @thomasself8096@thomasself80962 ай бұрын
  • In the block universe - you've just now explained this 🙂 And I appreciate the humor in the examples. Brilliant!

    @wallacekananda3396@wallacekananda3396 Жыл бұрын
  • I once heard the block universe described as the "view from nowhen" and I still think that's once of coolest phrases. The graphics in this video did a great job of showing it along with the concept of time sliced at different angles

    @MysteriousWorld.031@MysteriousWorld.03110 ай бұрын
    • Or the view from everywhen...

      @rebecca_stone@rebecca_stone5 ай бұрын
  • When past memories surface, I push it away with a better thought and I keep at it. ❤

    @NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111@NanaAmySpectreSeeker111111 күн бұрын
  • Time is a vibration in the universe where each ripple in time represents a certain time line, does the past exist? It should.

    @sandrabearden3441@sandrabearden344114 күн бұрын
  • I just discovered you and OMG you are awesome! Love your explanations with just a bit of dry humor tossed in here and there :).

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