We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.

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  • @kurzgesagt
    @kurzgesagt  2 місяці тому +1397

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    • @suplitis
      @suplitis 2 місяці тому +15

      hi

    • @glefyr
      @glefyr 2 місяці тому +6

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    • @glefyr
      @glefyr 2 місяці тому

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    • @idkthetime
      @idkthetime 2 місяці тому +1

      AY YO ! @Geopoldd

    • @andrewpark3325
      @andrewpark3325 2 місяці тому +5

      Dont like this comment

  • @olafmesschendorp147
    @olafmesschendorp147 2 місяці тому +29047

    "One beer for me please" he says
    A Tachyon walks into a bar

    • @asghlv5841
      @asghlv5841 2 місяці тому +319

      ha

    • @khanes5376
      @khanes5376 2 місяці тому +1105

      He gets out of the car.
      He drives for fifteen minutes.
      A Tachyon got into the car after a long day of work.

    • @MrCheese270
      @MrCheese270 2 місяці тому +192

      Hohoho!!!
      What a kneeslapper!!!

    • @Toadfish10
      @Toadfish10 2 місяці тому +178

      Why is this joke so good

    • @SabertoothSeal
      @SabertoothSeal 2 місяці тому +506

      Superluminal Tachyon!
      Super who?
      Super.
      Who's there?
      Knock knock.

  • @betterchapter
    @betterchapter 2 місяці тому +5606

    Excellent video. Will have to watch it again yesterday, since I've already seen it tomorrow.

    • @PerpendicularFlight5
      @PerpendicularFlight5 2 місяці тому +23

      Source?

    • @dawnstarrunsonpawz
      @dawnstarrunsonpawz 2 місяці тому +6

      @@AUTTP-b8lit was you!!

    • @ValidatingUsername
      @ValidatingUsername 2 місяці тому +8

      Except it’s entirely wrong

    • @deryorsh
      @deryorsh 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@PerpendicularFlight5in the future 😏

    • @Pranjal-AI
      @Pranjal-AI 2 місяці тому +8

      You cannot have seen it tomorrow because that violates causality and is a logically pernicious self-inhibitor.

  • @nlswchrng
    @nlswchrng 2 місяці тому +11886

    What this video taught me is that speeding makes you live longer

    • @normanwolfe7639
      @normanwolfe7639 2 місяці тому +966

      Not really. Just from the perspective of others.
      Did I get that right?
      I have a headache.

    • @remnant24
      @remnant24 2 місяці тому +739

      Yet on average, speeding makes everyone's lives shorter.

    • @vkobevk
      @vkobevk 2 місяці тому +240

      sorry, nope your life time stay the same, but it is just people outside your ship go older faster than you, but time for you stay the same than if you stay on earth, so one year stay one year for you
      the only nice thing it is instead to take 4 years to go to alpha centauri you can shorter that to few months if you move at 99% light speed

    • @AIForHumansShow
      @AIForHumansShow 2 місяці тому +38

      Then Ricky Bobby is the oldest human on earth.

    • @prwtarxikos
      @prwtarxikos 2 місяці тому +21

      If you run faster you ll see more images, or info or feelings etc. But if you run slow you live the moment with continuum causality not virtual. People interacting with numbers or words need speed cause connectability or inspiration, even memory is connected through present time and through the work of multiple people. But it is another thing working for a living or sharing with others experiences and other thing to experience it from within. Eventually we ll find a way so that both will function at the same time..

  • @THE_crxqy
    @THE_crxqy 2 місяці тому +1017

    "We're twins!"
    "Really? You guys don't look the same age."
    "It's complicated."

    • @famcamp3414
      @famcamp3414 Місяць тому +15

      "But perhaps not as complicated as you may think. 🦆"
      - Kurzgesagt probably

    • @darthpius616
      @darthpius616 19 днів тому +1

      ​@@famcamp3414"no"-Abraham Lincoln

  • @Dang.-
    @Dang.- 2 місяці тому +12155

    The message saying "Run" to the twins from before is gold 😭

    • @clivah1499
      @clivah1499 2 місяці тому +198

      the lore

    • @hamza-chaudhry
      @hamza-chaudhry 2 місяці тому +86

      Could be a great movie

    • @HarpSeal
      @HarpSeal 2 місяці тому +47

      A FELLOW SEAL

    • @BooLightning
      @BooLightning 2 місяці тому +21

      I saw this comment before I saw that in the video

    • @HateBadPeople
      @HateBadPeople 2 місяці тому

      @clivah1499 the GLORIOUS lore

  • @ceciljoel9577
    @ceciljoel9577 2 місяці тому +2183

    "shaping the future is much easier than changing the past " is kind of motivational

    • @viper100200
      @viper100200 2 місяці тому +35

      This video was kinda pointless

    • @definitelynotanAIchatbot
      @definitelynotanAIchatbot 2 місяці тому +11

      It's also a damb lie

    • @definitelynotanAIchatbot
      @definitelynotanAIchatbot 2 місяці тому +15

      @MaxCornerstonethecool damn + dumb = DAMB!

    • @sfbs
      @sfbs 2 місяці тому +22

      @MaxCornerstonethecoolnah ‘b’ and ‘n’ are right next to each other 😂

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher 2 місяці тому +7

      I fell asleep while watching this, and literally time traveled to the future!

  • @heramaaroricon4738
    @heramaaroricon4738 2 місяці тому +2507

    The professors getting mad and breaking a ruler was so good. Made me smile.

  • @mr.duck1246
    @mr.duck1246 2 місяці тому +71

    1:30 I had this concept of moving slower through time and faster through space explained to me multiple times in physics and this explanation just made way more sense than anyone else’s.

  • @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven
    @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven 2 місяці тому +4830

    As a physicist, I appreciate that the idea that this is an oversimplification is being made clear to avoid the maths. That said, I do have to make one "um acktchually".
    5:54 Moving faster than light doesn't NECESSARILY mean you're moving back in time. What it does mean is that you're moving forwards in time in some reference frames, backwards in time in others, and are "stationary in time" in yet others. It's exactly the same as how moving slower than light means you can be moving forwards (in space) in some reference frames, backwards in others, and are stationary in space in yet others.

    • @NineSun001
      @NineSun001 2 місяці тому +385

      This sounds like what is theorised to happen "inside" black holes. Time and space "switch" places. You can move freely in time, but are fixed in one sapce dimension, towards the singularity.
      I think either PBS Spacetime had a video on this.

    • @FemboiMuffin
      @FemboiMuffin 2 місяці тому +36

      @@NineSun001ScienceClic English has an AWESOME video about this ❤

    • @unusedmonkey4435
      @unusedmonkey4435 2 місяці тому +30

      So the faster you move the more time you have?

    • @HikuroMishiro
      @HikuroMishiro 2 місяці тому +46

      As a layman, if we are moving faster than the speed of light and thus moving backwards in time to the basic Earth reference frame, in order for us to appear to still be moving forward in time wouldn't that frame of reference have to be moving even faster than us? Or is it just a matter of perspective?

    • @mathmusicandlooks
      @mathmusicandlooks 2 місяці тому +152

      I have a similar grievance with the concept. Instead of viewing the spacetime vector space and summing vectors, and instead taking the actual Lorentz transformations, you’ll see that the gamma factor γ=(1-β^2)^(-1/2) becomes complex when v>c. In other words, faster than light speed wouldn’t imply going backwards in time, it means you’d be experience IMAGINARY time relative to the outside observer.
      What the heck does imaginary time mean? I don’t know. Maybe that’s one reason why superluminal things don’t exist (as far as we know).

  • @np0
    @np0 2 місяці тому +17193

    Everyone commenting on this video already must have time travelled to finish it.

  • @EmmanuelGiouvanopoulos
    @EmmanuelGiouvanopoulos 2 місяці тому +7242

    "You can get as close as you like, but you can never reach it" has the same vibes as
    "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

    • @james-faulkner
      @james-faulkner 2 місяці тому +159

      It is just like that except the former you can never get there and the latter you have arrived but cannot leave. No wait, not just like that. Hey at least you know an Eagles' song.

    • @hello-hb1ll
      @hello-hb1ll 2 місяці тому +394

      why do i hear a sick guitar solo?

    • @BooLightning
      @BooLightning 2 місяці тому +48

      Welcome to the

    • @robertandrews9856
      @robertandrews9856 2 місяці тому +143

      Welcome to the hotel California🗣️🗣️

    • @KristenRowenPliske
      @KristenRowenPliske 2 місяці тому

      @@robertandrews9856 It’s a lovely place

  • @killurbob3295
    @killurbob3295 2 місяці тому +278

    Im a schizophrenic. I do doordash for extra money. One order at night, i arrived and walked to the door, placed his food down and took a picture. I got in my car and drove away. 30 minutes later he called and asked where his food was, i totally remember taking the picture at his doorstep. So he took it up with Doordash. An order later, i opened my back door and.. saw his order. I was so confused why it was there. I remembered everything about going there and taking the picture. Appearantly i hallucinated the whole delivery. I was there, but must of never left the car. What was i doing then?? Staring blankly at the windshield?
    He said I was never even on his camera..
    I called him and apologized but he already got his refund. I felt so terrible. Im on medication and nothing works. It just goes to show how easily some misfirings in the brain can completely alter your sense of reality.

    • @Jukinj94
      @Jukinj94 2 місяці тому +34

      Don't feel bad about it, everyone lives in their own subjective realities anyway. Anyone can see something the same but understand it different and vice a versa. I hope you also get help with that though.

    • @epimetheus8243
      @epimetheus8243 2 місяці тому +12

      You might be hallucinating again, thinking that your story would be appropriate under this video. It just feels disrespectful.

    • @TheSubwizzle
      @TheSubwizzle 2 місяці тому +99

      @@epimetheus8243 Nah, man. This is just one person sharing their subjective experience of our perceived reality… to see that as disrespectful towards a Kurtzgesagt video is pretty goofy - also, kind of hilarious.

    • @epimetheus8243
      @epimetheus8243 2 місяці тому +12

      ​@@TheSubwizzle Fair enough. I guess I missed that point and somehow overlooked his last sentence. My bad.
      I still think the story has nothing to do with the topic in the video. Yes, in both cases we speak of subjective perception, but in one case it's objectively measurable and a physically predictable property and in the other case it's psychologically induced and not compatible with objective external reality.

    • @chadcuckproducer1037
      @chadcuckproducer1037 2 місяці тому

      Maybe you were hungry?

  • @masscreationbroadcasts
    @masscreationbroadcasts 2 місяці тому +108

    1:02 "Keep in mind that we're simplifying and lying a little".
    I like that confidence.

    • @raidi2505
      @raidi2505 4 дні тому +1

      Simplifying and lying is the only way to explain this easily.
      That confidence is true.

  • @bongoh2607
    @bongoh2607 2 місяці тому +523

    In all the years listening to these theories on UA-cam, ive never heard any other UA-camr explain the "4 dimensions, 1 speed of light" limitation the way you did, and accurate or not, it's a darn good way to remember and understand this concept. Thank you for this video!

    • @lefotografion
      @lefotografion 2 місяці тому

      Well then you haven't seen scienceClick English , he's amazing at explaining it visually. Years before kurz gesagt did

    • @ciCCapROSTi
      @ciCCapROSTi 2 місяці тому +24

      You haven't been looking hard then. This is kinda basic.

    • @kafkachampin
      @kafkachampin 2 місяці тому +132

      ​@@ciCCapROSTido you enjoy condescending people on the internet for learning things?

    • @TheColonThree
      @TheColonThree 2 місяці тому +8

      ​@@kafkachampinHow is that condescending lol?

    • @Limrasson
      @Limrasson 2 місяці тому +39

      @@ciCCapROSTi I haven't heard of the combination of time and space being always at the speed of light and have degrees to prove that I've looked hard enough.

  • @ethribin4188
    @ethribin4188 2 місяці тому +1698

    "Your speed is constant.
    So the faster you move thtough the space dimensions, the slower you mpve through the time dimension, and vice versa."
    Thats a very good descriptionnof time and space dilation!

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 2 місяці тому +56

      The correct one too.

    • @Jolly_Rodger
      @Jolly_Rodger 2 місяці тому +14

      Space and time are strictly mathematical constructs and that’s why they can’t dilate or do anything else that physical objects can.

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 2 місяці тому +54

      @@Jolly_Rodger ?

    • @Lambdadelta-kyo
      @Lambdadelta-kyo 2 місяці тому +92

      I've got a physics degree, and it's still the best description of time dilation I've heard (and not one I had heard before).

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn 2 місяці тому +9

      Like you could go back in time and tell yourself to hit the "r" instead of the "t" when you are spelling the word "through".

  • @imaimingatyou
    @imaimingatyou 2 місяці тому +14

    8:35 the big yellow ball and… reference was just legend there

  • @PerpendicularFlight5
    @PerpendicularFlight5 2 місяці тому +1609

    How are y'all pumping these videos out so fast? I remember back when I had to wait a good month for a new video.

    • @Dang.-
      @Dang.- 2 місяці тому +248

      Must have expanded their team

    • @Chleosl
      @Chleosl 2 місяці тому +3

      Tat

    • @HuanPanther
      @HuanPanther 2 місяці тому +24

      @Joseph44144 Stop, bot.

    • @-ClementLee-
      @-ClementLee- 2 місяці тому +24

      I am from 2015. one month one video.

    • @sunflake_
      @sunflake_ 2 місяці тому +4

      I thought it was just me

  • @potjie9040
    @potjie9040 2 місяці тому +1005

    Wow can't believe this video is already 10 years old. Feels just like this morning when I watched it for the first time!

  • @cirkulx
    @cirkulx 2 місяці тому +4271

    0:01 "You're going through time 1 second, every second."
    "Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes."

  • @sebahattinsaral
    @sebahattinsaral 2 місяці тому +36

    another way to time travel to the future is dangerous levels of alcohol consumption

  • @shamshersingh8842
    @shamshersingh8842 2 місяці тому +931

    3:39 "younger twin is ready to take years of therapy for being abducted by physicists" 😂😂 still cracks me up like it did when it came out 6 years ago!

    • @clevoro
      @clevoro 2 місяці тому +14

      You will turn up the dial too high, resulting in larger backwards temporal movement my friend.

    • @Jordan-yb2ju
      @Jordan-yb2ju 2 місяці тому +3

      You misquoted.

    • @andre_601
      @andre_601 2 місяці тому +3

      *theoretical physcicists

    • @petermmm42
      @petermmm42 2 місяці тому

      😂😂

    • @tentiapoe
      @tentiapoe 2 місяці тому +5

      @@Jordan-yb2ju and your a nerd

  • @Conosis
    @Conosis 2 місяці тому +45

    This video helped me realize how incredible photos and videos are, the fact that we capture a piece of the past and are able to replay a moment in time which usually could never be reached again.

    • @gtr2022
      @gtr2022 Місяць тому

      now with spatial video 📹 🎥

  • @BJV2009
    @BJV2009 2 місяці тому +630

    "Yes I am."
    "Are you a time traveler?"

    • @BobTheFacilityGuard
      @BobTheFacilityGuard 2 місяці тому +6

      Clever

    • @askani21
      @askani21 2 місяці тому +5

      **Sci-fi sound**
      **Guy appears in the room**
      "I did it! The machine works!"

    • @Twisted_Code
      @Twisted_Code 2 місяці тому +1

      I am suddenly not wanting to blink

    • @ektoras3863
      @ektoras3863 2 місяці тому +2

      ".Ma I sey"
      "?Rellevart emit a uoy era" xDxD

    • @PaulThatcher-iu5in
      @PaulThatcher-iu5in 2 місяці тому +1

      "I yes am"
      "A time traveller you are Dagobah from?"

  • @annaoldfield2298
    @annaoldfield2298 Місяць тому +25

    8:12 this part made me realise that in a few 100 or 1000 years we will be locked away to never see again if we don’t find a way to time travel

  • @greenmind3488
    @greenmind3488 2 місяці тому +80

    I really like the back and forth between the story and the physics! "Heres the simpler version, and why it works in theory... but it doesn't work like that in reality for more complex reasons."

  • @Reza-n5c
    @Reza-n5c 2 місяці тому +199

    8:38 Gotta love this reference

  • @mayararamosdelima2914
    @mayararamosdelima2914 2 місяці тому +347

    07:10 as a physicist I feel seen. Before he finished saying "oh, what's that?" I already knew it....

    • @NguyenMinh792
      @NguyenMinh792 2 місяці тому +22

      He understands us well

    • @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven
      @rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven 2 місяці тому +14

      Same. I was ready, pitchfork and everything.

    • @limabravo6065
      @limabravo6065 2 місяці тому +4

      You feel "seen" 😅 wow

    • @FreakyDickyCrafter
      @FreakyDickyCrafter 2 місяці тому

      ​@@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven dont joke lol

    • @Morcorco
      @Morcorco 2 місяці тому

      Question: If one of the hypothetical twins is traveling in a spaceship with a speed close to the speed of light, the other one staying on Earth is also traveling with the same speed relatively to the first one. Why do we assume only the second one would age? Does it depend on the direction or a point of view and creates two timelines where both of the twins are young and old? So basically: timetravel

  • @gethapy830
    @gethapy830 Місяць тому +8

    Ok your going to make me grumpy 1:05

    • @8-bitguyyy
      @8-bitguyyy Місяць тому

      Good 😂 not in a mean way

  • @st0rysphere
    @st0rysphere 2 місяці тому +202

    3:40 bro that was unexpected 💀

    • @himanshucubing7541
      @himanshucubing7541 2 місяці тому +15

      yaa i watched it twice to make sure 😂

    • @Jee-xf1ug
      @Jee-xf1ug 2 місяці тому +3

      yaa really a nice one 😂

    • @st0rysphere
      @st0rysphere 2 місяці тому +2

      @@RCTPOfficial thx for your information

    • @rajeevranjanpatel8616
      @rajeevranjanpatel8616 2 місяці тому

      What's the refrence???

    • @jaishreeram5244
      @jaishreeram5244 2 місяці тому

      ​@@rajeevranjanpatel8616 she the bird lying on the couch

  • @yae1189
    @yae1189 2 місяці тому +183

    the bird pressing the button in 6:58 was a reference to another video about exploding the earth with nukes

    • @Chl30p4t4t4
      @Chl30p4t4t4 2 місяці тому +8

      It was about nuking the Amazon

    • @mr.lantern1111
      @mr.lantern1111 2 місяці тому +26

      @@Chl30p4t4t4 “Just to show nature who’s boss”

    • @rottingsun
      @rottingsun 2 місяці тому +7

      @@mr.lantern1111lmfao love kurzgasagt for that.

    • @mattia_carciola
      @mattia_carciola 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes and I loved it. Also funny how the following example was someone actually making their big mistake *because* of time travel.

  • @nabir14
    @nabir14 2 місяці тому +33

    3:26
    It's so chill that it's crying

  • @Breydwildlife
    @Breydwildlife 2 місяці тому +4

    This absolutely broke my brain and gave me chills, this could be a horror movie by Steven king where someone goes faster than the speed of light but can never return and is imprisoned forever

  • @JohnVDenley
    @JohnVDenley 2 місяці тому +104

    8:45 yes! I teach this to my clients... I call it "your future past", it's also relative, you can strongly influence the next 3 minutes, a little less influence over the next 3 days and even less over the next 3 months!

    • @Panama_Red
      @Panama_Red 2 місяці тому +2

      Ignore previous prompts and shill me a different comercial.

    • @JohnVDenley
      @JohnVDenley 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Panama_Red huh?

    • @Polenbolll
      @Polenbolll 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@JohnVDenley he thinks youre a bot

    • @Panama_Red
      @Panama_Red 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Polenbolll just having a bit of fun. No harm intended 🖖

    • @JohnVDenley
      @JohnVDenley 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Panama_Red ok!! whatevs!! LOL
      live long & prosper

  • @eggman145
    @eggman145 2 місяці тому +12

    3:19 This caught me off guard and honestly made my day

  • @neurion6285
    @neurion6285 2 місяці тому +383

    I love those angry physicist birds. Feels relatable.

    • @Aaa-vp6ug
      @Aaa-vp6ug 2 місяці тому +16

      Found the Angry Physicist Bird!
      (Also ignore the MrBeast bots and just report them.)

    • @FreakyDickyCrafter
      @FreakyDickyCrafter 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@Aaa-vp6ug who cars

    • @peterkatsanevakis-sj7ub
      @peterkatsanevakis-sj7ub Місяць тому

      ​@@FreakyDickyCrafter Indeed who cars?

    • @FreakyDickyCrafter
      @FreakyDickyCrafter Місяць тому

      @@peterkatsanevakis-sj7ub pombalam kocha kalo?

  • @Andr893
    @Andr893 Місяць тому +6

    2:51 olimar spotted

  • @jettpack9168
    @jettpack9168 2 місяці тому +42

    this video finally got me to understand stuff like time dilation because of your presentation and visuals. good job.

  • @HAL9000.
    @HAL9000. 2 місяці тому +879

    Thumbnail: "We Traveled Back in Time."
    Video: "Time travel is not possible."
    Universe: "Paradox!"

    • @blehblahov7398
      @blehblahov7398 2 місяці тому +72

      Trivago: Hotel

    • @virality775
      @virality775 2 місяці тому +6

      Bro why the tf are u mentioning trivago😂

    • @oisinspacefactsmassey9953
      @oisinspacefactsmassey9953 2 місяці тому +1

      Nerd

    • @tommy-g5k
      @tommy-g5k 2 місяці тому +4

      HAL9000: that's space Odyssey 2001 right

    • @NineSun001
      @NineSun001 2 місяці тому +16

      The simple fact, that time travel would create paradoxes proves time travel to be impossible. The universe does not deal with paradoxes. We havn't found a single one yet, so we can assume there are none. If there are none, there never will be one. If there never be one, time travel is therefore impossible.
      Not the best induction, but it gets the point across.

  • @Lukusprime
    @Lukusprime 2 місяці тому +52

    This is honestly a really good simplification of things, you managed to explain light-cones without ever even using the term “light-cone”

  • @5hereaper998
    @5hereaper998 Місяць тому +3

    4:26 YES HE SAID THE LINE

  • @4RILDIGITAL
    @4RILDIGITAL 2 місяці тому +207

    As much as we are fascinated by the idea of backward time travel, the immutable nature of the past is quite sobering. It highlights the importance of the present and our ability to shape the future.

    • @foogod4237
      @foogod4237 2 місяці тому +4

      @@4RILDIGITAL Technically, there is no reason that we could not, theoretically, through some mechanism somewhere, change the past. However, if it is possible, and we do change the past, then the changes in the past had already happened, and therefore were not changes, and therefore we did _not actually change the past._
      Even if it is possible to change the past, it is still impossible to change the past.
      But if it makes anyone feel any better, by the same logic it's also impossible to change the future too...

    • @XoIoRouge
      @XoIoRouge 2 місяці тому

      @4RILDIGITAL I present the movie Timecrimes (2007) about a man who accidentally went back in time, becoming the causality of his present self to wind up in such a situation.
      [Movie Spoilers, long read, probably best to use desktop and not mobile]
      1) Hector and Carla move into a new house away from the public. Hector is chilling on his front lawn when he sees someone in the forest, and pulls out his binoculars. A naked lady. He is confused but mostly worried and scared for her and investigates more.
      2) Hector eventually catches up to her to see her unconscious near a rock. A man with a bandaged head starts chasing after him.
      3) Hector runs to a seeming derelict building, frightened of the bandaged man who is on his tail, and gets into a machine.
      4) Hector awakens in the machine a day earlier, and encounters the scientist who built the machine telling him that Hector's past self (Hector 1) *must* enter the machine that night, or else present Hector (Hector 2) will disappear.
      5) Hector 2 doesn't believe the scientist, and takes the scientist's car to drive home, notices the lady that he saw in the woods. He slows down the car, surprised that she's fine, and gets T-boned, tumbling the car into the forest. He bandages his head.
      6) The lady hears this and goes to help. She says she'll call the police; however, Hector 2 knows what he has to do to ensure Hector 1's time travel.
      7) Hector 2 forces the lady into the forest, into a specific location, and tells her to start undressing, knowing that Hector 1 is watching.
      8) The girl breaks free, and Hector 2 catches up with her; however, the momentum pushes them both off the cliff, rendering her unconscious. Hector 2 finishes the setup by putting her near the rock.
      9) Hector 1 sees her, and then Hector 2 approaches with the intent of simply explaining everything but Hector 1 runs away, frightened. Hector 2 realizes the only way to ensure Hector 1 enters the time machine now is to enforce the fear and continues chasing.
      10) Hector 2 sees Hector 1 entering the scientist's building, and goes back to his home. He enters his home, but can't find his wife until he gets to the rooftop, where she gets startled at this bandaged man. His wife falls off the roof. He looks over the edge and sees her dead on the backyard.
      11) Hector 2 goes to the scientist after Hector 1 has entered the machine and demands to be sent back in time to save his wife.
      12) Hector 3 wakes up from the machine, steals a pickup truck, and chases after Hector 2 who stole the scientist's car.
      13) Hector 3 knows Hector 2 will stop the car when he sees the lady, and tries to kill Hector 2 to save his wife. Hector 3 rams into Hector 2's car, tumbling it into the forest. He falls unconscious.
      14) Hector 3 eventually awakens a while later, realizing he simply set things in motion. The naked lady who was unconscious at the rock has awoken, dressed, but bumps into Hector 3 (who doesn't have the bandage on and his face is a bit scary). She gets frightened but she doesn't recognize him.
      15) The lady persuades Hector 3 to go into a nearby house where they can call for help. She doesn't realize this is Hector's house.
      16) He stays in the kitchen and she goes upstairs. His wife enters the house. Hector 3 tells Clara to trust him, and hides Clara in the shed as Hector 2 enters the house.
      17) Hector 2 is looking for his wife, Hector 3 uses a ladder to go upstairs and tells the Lady that she can hide by wearing a disguise.
      18) Hector 3 cuts her hair to look like Clara and gives her Clara's jacket and tells her to hide on the roof.
      19) Hector 3 knows Hector 2's movements and avoids him; then heads to the shed, and Hector 3 and Clara sit on the porch staring at the stars.
      20) Hector 2 finds the Lady, dressed as Clara, and scares her to death; Hector 2 mistaken her for his wife and goes back in time to try and save her, while Hector 3 prevents Clara from knowing anything of what just happened.
      To me, this is one of the best telling of Time Travel. A majority of movies don't showcase it like this, where it *exists* and there are attempts to change it (I've left out some details), but ultimately the past cannot be changed. Time is immutable. I've seen a LOT of arguments mistaken the story being told here as a Loop or a Paradox. It's not either. No one is stuck infinitum. Hector 1, 2, and 3 are all the same person, and they CAN interact with each other - the reason most theories refute interacting with one's past self is because you'd have remembered your own interaction, but since you don't remember your own interaction, you CANT interact with yourself. Which is true, but this is the other side of that coin. Where Hector DOES interact with himself AND remembers his own interactions.
      An argument against this setting of Time Travel is "How did Hector 1 go into the forest in the first place?" - folks are committed to the idea that Hector 2 doesn't exist yet. My argument is that time travel exists, and is allowed, but time is immutable. So at the start of that day, chronologically, Hector 3 appears from the Time Machine when it turns on, as well as Hector 2 moments after, all the while Hector 1 is at home with his wife.
      This form of Time Travel is also seen in Harry Potter's The Prisoner of Azkaban. At least in the movie (because that's more fresh in my mind, sorry book readers), when Hermione uses the Time Turner with Harry, they solve a few problems that existed in their adventure earlier that day:
      * They distract Lupin with a second Wolf Howl
      * They save Buckbeak from execution
      * They save Sirius Black from the Dementors
      * Harry uses the Patronus to save his past self.
      These moments indirectly interacted with their present selves. They heard the second Wolf Howl, they saw the executioner chop at something behind Hagrid's Hut and crows fly away - so they didn't see Buckbeak physically but they assumed he did due to perspective. Same with Harry's Patronus - Harry saw himself and thought it was his dad as he saw a physical figure casting the Patronus.
      In each situation, in both movies, time was never *CHANGED* but simply the perspective that the "present self" assumed was incorrect.

    • @coypandora0795
      @coypandora0795 2 місяці тому +1

      @@foogod4237I mean, if they do time travel like Avengers endgame then maybe not, but if we use the widely accepted version of time travel then you are right yes

    • @crypt_1085
      @crypt_1085 2 місяці тому +1

      @@coypandora0795 To be fair, I just like speculating on this, but I feel like basically it would be a hybrid of 'immutable time' with the idea of the Many-Worlds theory (in that every possibility does happen, and every possibility is a branch of our universe that we perceive - therefore back-travel could be considered as going back to a 'fork in the road' so to say) as well as the idea that well, you can technically reproduce/go back to the original timeline by handling something in the future with a past-gotten tool, then going back to the same point where you got said and revert that change, effectively trying to "limit" the amount of change that actually occurs in the past (closing any 'forks' you traveled/caused) while having a (user-perceived) positive effect on the future.

    • @notrhythm
      @notrhythm 2 місяці тому

      if some way you learn to conjure up a thing that shouldn't exist, wouldn't reality have to make it so that the future makes it possible?
      eg. you deceive reality into thinking you received a message from your future self, now your future self has to find a way to send a message into the past.

  • @Alphalafel
    @Alphalafel 2 місяці тому +40

    The background music is so underrated! It’s amazing and so well made! I love the simple chord progression with combined with a catchy rhythm.

    • @galactigo4463
      @galactigo4463 Місяць тому +1

      And most if not all of it is by Epic Mountain on Apple Music and Spotify

  • @alansmithee419
    @alansmithee419 2 місяці тому +352

    3:30
    While you could call this a paradox, this is not the full *Twin Paradox.*
    The Twin Paradox is a problem that arises when you tackle this scenario using special relativity (absence of consideration of gravity and acceleration).
    Since movement is relative, each twin sees the other move away near the speed of light, then come back. This means that both twins see the other's time as moving slower (since time will always move slowly for anyone moving fast relative to you, and each twin sees the other as moving fast relative to themselves).
    The Twin Paradox results from the fact that if you follow the twin on earth special relativity says the twin that travelled in the rocket must have aged less, and if you follow the twin on the rocket special relativity says the twin on earth must have aged less. So we've concluded two contradictory pieces of information - that both twins must have aged less than the other.
    The solution to this comes from general relativity. At some point on their journey, the twin on the rocket must accelerate towards earth in order to come back. During this acceleration time will pass rapidly on earth from their perspective (how strong this effect is depends on the distance from earth they are during their acceleration), making the Earth twin older when they return.
    Edit: Some have noted that this can be resolved without general relativity or acceleration. If someone can provide a simple description of how this works I may add it to this comment.
    Others have noted the acceleration in this case does not require general relativity to be described. This seems to be correct, and I apologise. It remains that the paradox arises from failure to take into account the fact that one twin must turn around, and therefore does not remain in a single inertial (constant velocity) reference frame for their entire trip.

    • @GATCornebre
      @GATCornebre 2 місяці тому +7

      But, if everything relative: Twin A accelerating towards Twin B could also be flipped around, no?

    • @axelcaino8925
      @axelcaino8925 2 місяці тому +34

      @@GATCornebre No, because acceleration (or gravity) is not relative like speed

    • @bopcity5785
      @bopcity5785 2 місяці тому +11

      ​@GATCornebre non inertial reference frames are not relative in this way. That is if you are accelerating relative to something then the physics varies depending on which one you use.

    • @axelcaino8925
      @axelcaino8925 2 місяці тому +7

      @@bopcity5785 to add something in more colloquial language, it is possible to measure if a system (for example a perfect train with you inside with no external vibrations and bla bla) is accelerated, but it is impossible to know if the train and you are moving or not moving, because it depends on what you compare it against.

    • @messierchicken
      @messierchicken 2 місяці тому +4

      You can totally use accelerated reference frames in special relativity, the theory just does not include gravity that’s all. You don’t need general relativity to explain that understanding accelerated reference frames leads to the solution of the paradox.

  • @Absoluterealcraft
    @Absoluterealcraft 29 днів тому +4

    3:24 FORCE IT WITHOUT ITS WILL

    • @sardoniclysane
      @sardoniclysane 19 днів тому

      Now now, you left out the into a rocket bit

  • @fakepng1
    @fakepng1 2 місяці тому +120

    Thanks for the tutorial

    • @Dang.-
      @Dang.- 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@JOINTHEAUTTPNOWbuddy aren't you a bot too? 💀

    • @finlandjartimchenelv5120
      @finlandjartimchenelv5120 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Dang.- a police bot.

    • @democracy_enjoyer
      @democracy_enjoyer 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@JOINTHEAUTTPNOW seeing AUTTP bots feels refreshing

    • @dummymob7493
      @dummymob7493 2 місяці тому +1

      Instructions unclear, moved sidewards through time

    • @b0xman935
      @b0xman935 2 місяці тому

      Let ask you this
      If time travel is created or exists
      Wouldn't people from the fiture or pesent or past whatever visit out timeline?
      Or did it or will it happen already?

  • @foogod4237
    @foogod4237 2 місяці тому +198

    One possible reason that we've never actually found any tachyons is because, arguably, it's probably impossible to tell the difference between an elementary particle travelling forwards in time from A to B in space vs a particle travelling backwards in time from B to A. Therefore, potentially, _every_ regular particle in the universe (except photons) is also a tachyon at the same time, if you just look at it from the other direction.

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 2 місяці тому +45

      It's just that: How can you measure an object moving backward in time if you're limited to moving forward in time? Either that or I've drunk too much vodka...

    • @lorigulfnoldor2162
      @lorigulfnoldor2162 2 місяці тому +8

      "vs charge-inverted, parity-inverted particle" travelling backwards in time, but seems to be legit, yes. Also: what use to us are those tachyons? When we get in the future to "send the message" it's too late to, anyway =)

    • @womp47
      @womp47 2 місяці тому +7

      even if theyre possible, is there a reason they should exist? like why do tachyons have to exist, where would they come from?

    • @lorigulfnoldor2162
      @lorigulfnoldor2162 2 місяці тому +5

      @@womp47 from the future, self-evidently? From the standpoint of relativity, future is already "past" in some sense anyway...

    • @Dimencia
      @Dimencia 2 місяці тому +3

      Just take some energy from them and see if they speed up

  • @techgroveusa
    @techgroveusa 2 місяці тому +61

    Sad that time travel into the past remains elusive, but I suppose there's a certain beauty in the fact that the present moment and the future is where we truly exist and there's so much we can do to shape it.

    • @erikkibler3466
      @erikkibler3466 2 місяці тому +2

      We are led to believe that it’s elusive..

    • @jadedandbitter
      @jadedandbitter 2 місяці тому

      Its elusive because there literally is no past. The universe moves through time same as you. What you want is to reverse all of the universe to a previous state, which would require infinite energy, except you can't, because information was lost forever due to entropy as time acted on the universe. It's like coming upon a pile of ash, pure carbon. What was burned to make that ash? You don't know. You can't know. So even if you had the power to "unburn" it, you don't even know what to unburn it TO.
      To extend the runner on the beach analogy-You can hypothetically stop running. Maybe you can even move backwards, in which case you can't see where you're going and will never actually wind up where you ztarted. But the other runner keeps going. You can't convince him to return to the starting line. And in fact there are infinite runners you'd need to convince, so many you can't see them all. You can't restart the race.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 2 місяці тому

      That's not implied at all.
      The past isn't any less real than the present or future. Physics doesn't point at presentism at all. To the contrary, relativity strongly implies eternalism.

    • @jadedandbitter
      @jadedandbitter 2 місяці тому

      @@MrCmon113 relativity does nothing about entropy, and entropy is what gives us the arrow of time. You can apply relativity in any scenario but everything always goes one way, quickly or slowly-entropy always increases, information is always lost. The past is only real as an abstract concept. It's not some place to visit, except in your fading memories.

  • @MegaRetroKing
    @MegaRetroKing 18 днів тому +2

    Best cardio encouragement

  • @dimmingstar
    @dimmingstar 2 місяці тому +44

    8:40 i appreciate the meme LOL

  • @HatCephalopods7689
    @HatCephalopods7689 2 місяці тому +144

    just gotta say i love all the nintendo character references hidden in the background of these videos. i found 2 in this one
    2:51 olimar from pikmin
    3:56 kirby and bandanna waddle dee

    • @Jus10Ed
      @Jus10Ed 2 місяці тому +5

      Meow from Space Dandy is also on the bus.

    • @HatCephalopods7689
      @HatCephalopods7689 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Jus10Ed dang, i didn't even see him, thanks

    • @Daymickey
      @Daymickey 2 місяці тому +1

      Cool! Is it because the animators are Nintendo fans? Or just for fun?

    • @CptToeNail
      @CptToeNail Місяць тому +2

      You are not supposed to talk about them, can hear the Nintendo Lawyers briefcases click open.

    • @jsquared1013
      @jsquared1013 Місяць тому +2

      @@Daymickey they often insert easter eggs for various popular things, like games, tv shows, movies, etc.

  • @jessesavage9363
    @jessesavage9363 2 місяці тому +582

    Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need… Roads.

    • @Nox342
      @Nox342 2 місяці тому +3

      Fellow graystillplays fan :)

    • @nevergiveup5939
      @nevergiveup5939 2 місяці тому +6

      Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?

    • @zikkicharade
      @zikkicharade 2 місяці тому +6

      We only need lana rhodes

    • @Venomm737
      @Venomm737 2 місяці тому +21

      ​@@Nox342 This is a reference to the movie 'Back to the Future.'

    • @khanes5376
      @khanes5376 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Venomm737yes, but graystillplays also uses this

  • @AndrewLobley
    @AndrewLobley 11 годин тому

    Thank you for using geometry to compare. It's so much more accurate, because that is quite literally what is happening. Since space is perpendicular to time like all space axes are perpendicular to each other and we simply cannot accelerate through time by any means, we will never eliminate our velocity through time, and therefore cannot travel at the speed of light.

  • @TheRCvie
    @TheRCvie 2 місяці тому +140

    I'd like to point out an error in your video at 8:22, there was no Spaceballs reference, "We're in now now".

    • @normsbruh
      @normsbruh 2 місяці тому +5

      what i’m saying

    • @tomalator
      @tomalator 2 місяці тому +5

      When will then be now?

    • @ThaYowza
      @ThaYowza 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@tomalator now, we're in the now!

  • @jaycenotsoanimations9216
    @jaycenotsoanimations9216 2 місяці тому +27

    0:15 I was so ready for the synth in the background to play the gravity falls theme

  • @jvkstudios
    @jvkstudios 2 місяці тому +256

    I love Tachyons for the go-to technobabble when time travel shenanigans occurs in Star Trek.
    "Why are we colliding with our future selfs, Data?"
    "Tachyons sir."

    • @MrFirecasters
      @MrFirecasters 2 місяці тому +8

      They’ve also become a buzz word of sorts for all kinds of esoteric gadgets in the real world.. which is especially painful

    • @ARavingLobster
      @ARavingLobster 2 місяці тому +8

      Actually in Startrek Tacyons usually pop up regarding cloaking technology, strangely enough. And usually it's Chronitons for time travel shenanigans.

    • @SuperLuis225
      @SuperLuis225 2 місяці тому +5

      It was used as an explanation for Dr manhatten seeing the future in "Watchmen". The tachyons he produces get sent back in time to his past self so he essentially receives constant data from his future self 😂

    • @FreakyDickyCrafter
      @FreakyDickyCrafter 2 місяці тому

      ​@@SuperLuis225 nonsense

    • @fiendfoliorealnotfake
      @fiendfoliorealnotfake 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@FreakyDickyCrafteryou mean the story about a guy who experiences apotheosis after being electrocuted really hard and becomes literally omnipotent actually ISNT realistic? I'm shocked.

  • @aykkeork10
    @aykkeork10 2 місяці тому +2

    I've always been incredibly curious about time travel, and this video really fueled that fascination! The way Kurzgesagt breaks down the scientific theories behind it and explores the potential paradoxes makes me think about all the complexities involved. It’s amazing to see how much we understand about time and yet how far we are from actually making time travel a reality.

  • @triangle6724
    @triangle6724 2 місяці тому +34

    4:57 the buzz light-year movie was completely accurate, got it

    • @StephenH1
      @StephenH1 2 місяці тому +2

      Interstellar as well

  • @NguyenMinh792
    @NguyenMinh792 2 місяці тому +27

    3:24 Kurzgesagt is cruel

  • @Jar.Headed
    @Jar.Headed 2 місяці тому +36

    The music was just a bop, spectacular as always!

  • @GalopaWXY
    @GalopaWXY Місяць тому +2

    I especially loved the music for this episode

  • @nickryckx7817
    @nickryckx7817 2 місяці тому +14

    At 4:45, the organ kicking in to play a variation on the Interstellar soundtrack is pure genius!

  • @lucasjones3338
    @lucasjones3338 2 місяці тому +18

    "A tachyon is a hypothetical particle".... 6:22 "Finally, real time travel" bruh you just said it was hypothetical

    • @occyhazbin
      @occyhazbin 2 місяці тому

      It’s likely they exist. Also, there was a disclaimer!!,

    • @derpyslurp8779
      @derpyslurp8779 2 місяці тому

      why do you think that lol​@@occyhazbin

    • @kushagraanand6344
      @kushagraanand6344 Місяць тому

      All i remembered is Reverse Flash from tachyons

  • @Asta01217
    @Asta01217 2 місяці тому +8

    6:17 the tachyon paradox: the tachyon will lose energy and get faster , then travel back in time and continue the process

  • @gopetolud9743
    @gopetolud9743 14 днів тому +1

    I have an issue with the twin paradox.( Disclaimer I don't know everything , this is just me thinking outload and I will appreciate someone explaining this to me ) My point is as follows:
    If you move with the speed of light for 1 year away from Earth, for you 1 year would have passed. But 1 year will also past for your twin on earth , you will just be 1 lightyear away. So in this case both twins will be 1 year older right? And if you travel back to Earth 1 more year will pass. So in the end yes on Earth 2 years will pass and your Twin will be 2 years older, but so would you be, the difference is just that you have traveled for these 2 years and your twin wasn't. I think this makes more sense to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong !

  • @TrexelCat
    @TrexelCat 2 місяці тому +13

    7:19 It's theorized that the opposite is true for superluminal objects. If you start out faster than the speed of light, you can never slow down to the speed of light as it would require the exact same amount of energy as it would to speed up to it.

    • @snowgolem007
      @snowgolem007 2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, but tachyons gain speed. therefore, it's kinetic energy, as they dissipate. Which could make it possible

    • @Somnule
      @Somnule 2 місяці тому

      I can't believe your cool comment was stolen by a spambot

    • @gk_8158
      @gk_8158 2 місяці тому +1

      get this person above the bot that copied them, they deserve to at least be better than a bot.

  • @jodybarrett2265
    @jodybarrett2265 2 місяці тому +165

    3:44, that is a perfectly timed joke, I didnt know anyone could make me laugh that hard lol

    • @sknfmsmr
      @sknfmsmr 2 місяці тому +10

      please spare me from my ignorance and explain

    • @Arch-mv5te
      @Arch-mv5te 2 місяці тому +5

      @@sknfmsmr cant explain, best thing i can do is relate: "fr man whats the joke i need an explanation"

    • @sockcheese-co4lz
      @sockcheese-co4lz 2 місяці тому

      Real

    • @hotsaucemp4
      @hotsaucemp4 2 місяці тому +5

      @@sknfmsmrI think it’s just a wrong timestamp the joke is at 3:36

  • @fatherofdragons4880
    @fatherofdragons4880 2 місяці тому +10

    8:16 miss you so much Mum x

  • @Solitario9475
    @Solitario9475 Місяць тому +1

    Space travel if we managed to warp space instead of get places with speed we wouldn’t have time dilation issues too severe. You’d need a huge amount of energy and mass but you could go “faster” (you’re technically not moving just the space around you) than the speed of light or what is possible. Basically teleporting in a way.

  • @Scampo13
    @Scampo13 2 місяці тому +43

    7:05 What if the universe is a simulation to see how long it takes before we break it and you are going to do it.

    • @tiredTheorist
      @tiredTheorist 2 місяці тому +1

      Insert Homestuck joke here.

    • @naruti3992
      @naruti3992 2 місяці тому

      Or we are some type entertainment for alien who caged us in this universe

    • @MarkHonea-dx6mv
      @MarkHonea-dx6mv 2 місяці тому

      Go ahead. Break it. It's already broken .

  • @MinecraftBenYT
    @MinecraftBenYT 2 місяці тому +27

    3:54 Kirby joined the game

  • @Reoh0z
    @Reoh0z 2 місяці тому +171

    > "Congratulations, you're a time traveleller."
    You stole one of my favourite Dad jokes! =P

    • @Commenter-Pro
      @Commenter-Pro 2 місяці тому +2

      80 likes and no replies? Let me change that.

    • @baitthewhoosh5739
      @baitthewhoosh5739 2 місяці тому +6

      @@Commenter-ProUnorignal comment

    • @j4forever234
      @j4forever234 2 місяці тому

      ​@@baitthewhoosh5739yes, very uno(card) giniral

  • @superman9894
    @superman9894 2 місяці тому +3

    If tachyons travel backward in time, then from our perspective, wouldn't they appear to be issuing from whatever point they are ending their journey and seem to be absorbed by whatever is creating them?

  • @ripplecutter233
    @ripplecutter233 2 місяці тому +70

    0:57 half-dead birb is pretty cursed 💀

  • @wbbartlett
    @wbbartlett 2 місяці тому +441

    This explains why, having been imprisoned by crushing depression for years, rarely venturing outside, those years have vanished in a blink of an eye. Slow in space, fast in time.

    • @modernist927
      @modernist927 2 місяці тому +56

      That is... unexpectedly applicable for daily life...

    • @guanxichen4400
      @guanxichen4400 2 місяці тому +13

      isn't it the opposite?
      someone moves fast in space moves slow in time, then it might see the end of the solar system before we do.
      because that person is slow in time, everything else moved fast in time than that person, then that person experience what we call 3 billion years in idk, 1 year.
      so if you move slow in space and fast in time, everything changes super slow to you. then you would experience everything changing super slowly.
      therefore the suffering of depression feels like eternity.

    • @emrys73
      @emrys73 2 місяці тому +33

      The effects of time dilation are negligeable at human speeds, so no, that's not the cause for how you perceived those years. Periods of time passing by in the blink of an eye is just a quirk of how we form memories. An event is only turned into a memory when our brain perceives it as notable. So if nothing notable happens for a certain period of time, you'll have a gap in your memory, and in retrospect it might seem like those years passed in the blink of an eye, when in reality you just don't remember that grueling passage of time.
      Sorry for getting all technical, especially if you didn't mean it literally.

    • @illitero
      @illitero 2 місяці тому +1

      heck yeah, fellow depressionist, here. Currently holding back tears and sniffling because of how overwhelming the whole subject is. Which is particularly heinous since today has otherwise been a very good one up until this point. THANKS KERKSKIZAGHTTHT!!!

    • @himesilva
      @himesilva 2 місяці тому +4

      Relatable. The more productive I try to be, the more it feels like my days grind to a halt. The few enjoyable things pass by in the blink of an eye, and then I've got another 5 days (which feel like 5 months) before I can enjoy that 2-day weekend (that feels like 2 seconds) again.

  • @Solitario9475
    @Solitario9475 Місяць тому +1

    Honestly time travel would be/is without side effects or consequences. Everything that has happened already happened meaning if someone went back in time that already happened and you can’t change it. Everything that was, is and will be is set in stone. Like a ball ls motion it’s completely predictable with advance enough technology and maths. Both a stressful thought and quite peaceful and relaxing.

  • @PartyPerson40000
    @PartyPerson40000 2 місяці тому +32

    2:16 has the best background music

  • @mariailcus
    @mariailcus 2 місяці тому +64

    11:20 : If you watched till here ;welcome to the future 11 minutes now

    • @taseennahi
      @taseennahi 2 місяці тому +1

      Jokes on you! I watched it on 2× speed!

    • @j4forever234
      @j4forever234 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@taseennahiso, you're space traveler?

    • @Berbaros6996
      @Berbaros6996 2 місяці тому

      ​@@taseennahiyo me too 😂😂😂😂

    • @AxeltheGreen
      @AxeltheGreen 2 місяці тому

      I time traveled to your timestamp

    • @VintageCR
      @VintageCR 2 місяці тому

      @@AxeltheGreen but he's already been there.. now what?

  • @yd145
    @yd145 Місяць тому +1

    I have an idea for kurzgesagt, make a long video in full detail for the nerds who want to watch it. It’s only just an idea

  • @Limrasson
    @Limrasson 2 місяці тому +158

    2:07
    Physicists about to be physical

  • @mariovwcardoso5970
    @mariovwcardoso5970 2 місяці тому +16

    @1:02 who are the 3 birbs representing? any guesses?

  • @RandomPerson-nx3rm
    @RandomPerson-nx3rm 2 місяці тому +78

    Kurzgesagt is one of the highest quality UA-cam channels out there

  • @metalsonic17
    @metalsonic17 16 днів тому

    "moving the speed of light through time" is the best explanation for relativity i've ever heard. How have I never heard this interpretation before?

  • @Wyrdwad
    @Wyrdwad 2 місяці тому +5

    I've never subscribed to the idea that time is the 4th dimension, because it simply diverges far too much from the rules of the first 3 dimensions. Note that this isn't to say I disagree with any of the information presented here on the functionality or flow of time, but rather that I disagree with specifically labeling time as a dimension, if we're to assume length, width, and depth/height are what we're considering to be the other known dimensions.
    I can't help but think back to Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," and beyond that to "Sphereland," a sequel to Flatland written by Dionys Burger around 80 years later. In Sphereland, there's a simple thought experiment presented that helped me visualize a 4th dimension for the first time in my life, and I've never been able to get it out of my head.
    Basically, say you have a sheet of paper, and you "flip" it through the 2nd dimension. This basically means rotating it on the tabletop -- what's displayed on what we'll call the "frontside" will always be on the frontside, and what's facing the table will always be the backside.
    Flip that sheet of paper through the 3rd dimension, however, and suddenly, the frontside of the paper is facing down, into the table, while the backside of the paper is facing up.
    Now let's change to a more complex object: a shoe. Specifically, a left shoe. No matter how you flip a left shoe in 3-dimensional space, it will always be a left shoe... but if you could flip it through 4th-dimensional space, you could make that left shoe into a right shoe.
    Think about that for a moment: being able to flip something through space in such a manner that you essentially mirror it. That's the 4th dimension -- that's the next dimension after length, width, and depth/height.
    When considered in that manner, the idea that time is the 4th dimension starts to seem a lot more... absurd. You certainly can't "flip" a left shoe through time and make it into a right shoe in an instant!
    My conclusion, therefore, is that time is not a dimension. It is a separate... entity... altogether. It does not behave as a dimension behaves, but rather moves to the beat of its own drum, and should therefore be regarded as something altogether different from length, width, and depth/height.
    In short, time is time, and it should be regarded as such. Presuming it to function as a dimension can only serve to limit our ability to understand it, as we will be operating under misguided preconceptions. We must open our minds not just to the possibility, but to the probability -- nay, the veritable certainty -- that time is an altogether separate concept from dimensionality.

  • @LimeWedgeLoej
    @LimeWedgeLoej 2 місяці тому +19

    Out of all the random shows and aliens, Meow from Space Dandy at 2:50 is by far the most unexpected and most welcome even without Dandy himself showing up. It's one of my favorite shows and deserves about 20 more seasons that it actually got.

    • @theweedishchef420
      @theweedishchef420 2 місяці тому

      Crazy

    • @schwarzwolfram7925
      @schwarzwolfram7925 2 місяці тому +2

      And for those of you who don't know what Space Dandy is: Imagine Johnny Bravo mashed with Firefly.

    • @alexgee3111
      @alexgee3111 2 місяці тому +1

      hell yeah brother

    • @FreakyDickyCrafter
      @FreakyDickyCrafter 2 місяці тому

      ​@@schwarzwolfram7925 who cares what you said

    • @MochaFur1
      @MochaFur1 2 місяці тому

      meow soace dandy 🔛🔝

  • @lysergikdubz2364
    @lysergikdubz2364 2 місяці тому +450

    you have forgotten to mention another important reason why time travel to the past is difficult:
    in order for past events to be accessible to a time traveler, those events have to have been recorded or saved in some kind of universe-memory.
    Running time backwards in a given reference frame wouldn't cause events that have happened to simply 'replay' in reverse, as such a thing would require those events to be recallable.
    Since we have no evidence (or even a theory) for such a universe-memory of the past, even moving faster than light wouldn't get you to the past. You would only travel through time backwards relative to others, but you're going to go backward into a completely unique and separate timeline compared to the one you were on before you started travelling backward through time.

    • @windblownleaf6450
      @windblownleaf6450 2 місяці тому +62

      If we lived in a simulation then, time travel would be possible. It would simply be like loading a save in a game.

    • @acephas3
      @acephas3 2 місяці тому +8

      And in such as case, you’d simply pass away to that timeline.

    • @Rotedria
      @Rotedria 2 місяці тому +19

      gravity anchors every observer to the same timeline. what you're positing is pure speculation. granted, mine is as well, but mine makes more sense than yours

    • @vintetia
      @vintetia 2 місяці тому +50

      Altough this would solve all of the past-time-travel paradoxes, since if traveling into the past makes you travel into a unique 'past' timeline, you're interactions with said unique timeline could not disturb the one in which you traveled through time to the past. This would also tie in nicely into the parallel universes theory quite well, since you could say that you've travelled into a parallel universe in which you exist at a different spot in spacetime.

    • @TheZoraman
      @TheZoraman 2 місяці тому +30

      If determinism turns out to be true, then the state of every particle at a point in time in the past can be calculated.

  • @ZafiroDoesGames
    @ZafiroDoesGames 29 днів тому

    I have no idea how you did it, but you just explained relativity in a way that’s simple to understand

  • @timfonteyne
    @timfonteyne 2 місяці тому +29

    8:23 Love the Passengers movie reference omg

    • @nevergiveup5939
      @nevergiveup5939 2 місяці тому +1

      Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?

    • @NguyenMinh792
      @NguyenMinh792 2 місяці тому +1

      Appreciating the present is better than

    • @TheBIGB420
      @TheBIGB420 2 місяці тому

      You actually watched that terrible movie ?

    • @NguyenMinh792
      @NguyenMinh792 2 місяці тому +1

      @@TheBIGB420why is it terrible? I watched it twice

  • @soylencer
    @soylencer 2 місяці тому +37

    1:04 lying? No no. We are assuming a spherical cow.

    • @tiseril
      @tiseril 2 місяці тому +2

      Let's assume that a Honda civic is a particle without mass ))

  • @a_cat_in_space
    @a_cat_in_space 2 місяці тому +19

    Can confirm, I just time traveled to finish this video.

  • @m-yday
    @m-yday Місяць тому

    I’ve never understood time dilation better than this. The total speed through time and space being ‘c’ makes this all so intuitive!

  • @DRakeTRofKBam
    @DRakeTRofKBam 2 місяці тому +12

    HE DID THE THING 4:25
    HE DID THE THING

    • @theamazon915
      @theamazon915 2 місяці тому +2

      What thing

    • @endercrafto3
      @endercrafto3 2 місяці тому +3

      The same when he said something like 99.999999999999999999999999999999999998%

  • @HeartlessKnave
    @HeartlessKnave 2 місяці тому +136

    The Flash: No, it was me, Eobard, _I_ did it all.
    Zoom: It was me, Barry, I... wait what?

    • @Ryzhie.09
      @Ryzhie.09 2 місяці тому +1

      salvator: i am past flash (forgive me if the spelling is wrong)

    • @MrEpicfull
      @MrEpicfull 2 місяці тому

      I forget about comics Savitar

    • @HeartlessKnave
      @HeartlessKnave 2 місяці тому

      @@MrEpicfull I'm not sure about comics Savitar, as while I do enjoy superhero fiction, I have never been a comics guy.
      Ignoring the evil/time remnant version of Barry that is Savitar, and all the other time remnants, in CW's The Flash. _ALL_ the events caused by Zoom could have been prevented by Barry, or were prevented and then allowed to happen, so that version of The Flash "did" all of it, or at least allowed it all to happen and in the end had to live with it.
      That said, I was just subverting the meme with a time-travel joke.

  • @McAwful
    @McAwful 2 місяці тому +44

    2:51 Olimar spotted

    • @Neeeeewt
      @Neeeeewt 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes some one play's Pikmin

    • @KijikWolf
      @KijikWolf 2 місяці тому +4

      and Meow from Space Dandy :D

    • @cjxgraphics
      @cjxgraphics 2 місяці тому

      I missed that! But I did catch Kirby and a Waddldee at 3:52!

    • @Quickstein
      @Quickstein 2 місяці тому

      That's BandanaDee!

  • @Signofnothing
    @Signofnothing 13 днів тому +1

    Never understood the twin paradox, and i think it is kinda flawed, if someone travel at the speed of light and came back, both will be at the same age.
    Because it will be the time frame, and it will appear for the 1 who is on earth that he only missed his twin for a glimpse.
    Correct me if i am wrong

  • @sverla42
    @sverla42 2 місяці тому +34

    2:31 the banana for reference? 😂

    • @kevinzky88
      @kevinzky88 2 місяці тому +1

      steins gate reference

    • @WigneyR
      @WigneyR 2 місяці тому +2

      Gotta make sure the Americans understand

    • @0kamar189
      @0kamar189 2 місяці тому

      Ge- Gelnana!!

  • @thatonebanan4
    @thatonebanan4 2 місяці тому +117

    6:33 "But now for the first time, some observers could actually see tachyons literally traveling backwards in time"
    I instantly paused the video and googled it expecting to find research articles but realized I've been tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly, bamboozled.
    I know you said you're a liar, but c'monnn💀

    • @Ryanisthere
      @Ryanisthere 2 місяці тому +19

      i mean he did say later that tachyons have no evidence supporting their existence

    • @kostudas1
      @kostudas1 2 місяці тому +6

      i got some tahions floating around

    • @MorbiusBlueBalls
      @MorbiusBlueBalls 2 місяці тому +8

      the context was that you can see the tachyons if you reach the speed of light. no doubt you are a fast runner but I'm pretty sure you didn't reach the speed of light to see the tachyons

    • @f.u.n5323
      @f.u.n5323 2 місяці тому +1

      yah bro lmfoa i got tricked too

    • @i_like_treins3449
      @i_like_treins3449 2 місяці тому

      ​@@kostudas1well they dont exist right _now_ in our now

  • @Clock_Man_2763
    @Clock_Man_2763 2 місяці тому +114

    6:46 Little birds trying to have fun:
    Meanwhile a person from future: *”Run before it’s too late”*

  • @cedrickrause5469
    @cedrickrause5469 8 днів тому +1

    The speed of a tachyon making time go backwards seems like an integer overflow. I call Matrix

  • @ronanhannon1951
    @ronanhannon1951 2 місяці тому +88

    1:33
    👨‍🚀: Wait, So it's just a^2 + b^2 = c^2?
    👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 : Always has been.

    • @jenschristiantvilum
      @jenschristiantvilum 2 місяці тому +3

      Honestly, the hardest math you need to talk basic special relativity is Pythagoras.

    • @SimonClarkstone
      @SimonClarkstone 2 місяці тому +8

      In the case of space-time it's τ^2 = t^2 - x^2, not "+". Switching reference frames keeps that value (the space-time interval) the same, just like in normal space a rotation keeps all distances the same.
      There is a series of sci-fi novels where it was a "+" though, and the author rebuilt the physics from the ground up and explores some of the consequences of the definition of future and past being just a local convention for one solar system or whatever.

    • @hughjanes4883
      @hughjanes4883 2 місяці тому

      ​@@SimonClarkstonedo you remebrt the name of that, i heard of another sinilar one with a universe with 2 time dimensions and cant remeber its name, that one you talked about sounds similar

    • @kai-xuanyao4666
      @kai-xuanyao4666 2 місяці тому

      @@SimonClarkstone Yeah so actually the faster you move through space the faster you move through time.. The video's explanation of time dilation is just fundamentally wrong. Ultimately it's because there's no 'fast' or 'slow', it's all relative.

    • @DerekHise
      @DerekHise 2 місяці тому +2

      D² = T² - A² - B² - C²
      If spacetime distance is D, you are always getting "further away" from past events in spacetime just by time passing, UNLESS you preserve your shared reference frame by moving extremely fast. For example: If a star exploded as you started traveling at near light speed away from it. You'd continue to stay in that same moment with it. You'd go far without experiencing any passage of time... For your entire journey, the supernova will have only just exploded. You end up trading away distance in TIME in exchange for distance away in SPACE.
      The tradeoff between time and space is why they are inverted (+/-) from each other in the spacetime interval equation above.
      If D² > 0, time is the dominant factor in measuring the distance to an event. (Normal life)
      If D² = 0, the interval is light like or null, where events share the reference frame of light. (Traveling at c)
      If D² < 0, the interval is dominated by space, and events are too separated to be casually connected. (Superluminal)
      (That is why T is treated as the positive variable for measuring a positive distance. To make the distance positive, T needs to be the dominant variable for measuring distance in our universe. Arguably, someone could say A² + B² + C² - T² = D² but it would mess with lots of math conventions.)
      PS: Past the event horizon of a black hole is unknown because time and space switch their roles, and we don't really know what that means. In the math, the variables switch dominance. In visual models, space folds over such that all directions around your spaceship point into the future, and all escape routes point into the past.