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How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?

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    There’s a deep connection between gravity and time - gravitational fields seem to slow the pace of time in what we call gravitational time dilation. And today we’ll explore the origin of this effect. And ultimately, we’ll use what we learn to understand how curvature in time - this gradient of time dilation - can be thought of as the true source of the force of gravity.
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  • @brine_909
    @brine_909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2985

    “Your feet will age 1 second more" bold of you to assume I don't spend most of my time laying around

    • @ChairmanMeow1
      @ChairmanMeow1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      one second faster you mean!! :)

    • @aquacruisedb
      @aquacruisedb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@ChairmanMeow1 Handstands?

    • @bernixpivot
      @bernixpivot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@ChairmanMeow1 the closer you are to a massive object the slower the time goes, acording to someone farther away, thats why if someone falls into a black hole you will never see him fall, he will just freeze in time in the event horizon

    • @ChairmanMeow1
      @ChairmanMeow1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      he says at the beginning "your feet will age one second more (faster)" -- am I missing something?? :(

    • @Junoswoof
      @Junoswoof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ChairmanMeow1 If you gained one more year of life, you'd be aging slower.

  • @BM-jy6cb
    @BM-jy6cb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +348

    Today is a personal best - I managed to follow along for 90 seconds before my brain threw in the towel.

    • @mrmarvellous5378
      @mrmarvellous5378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol

    • @aspektx
      @aspektx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I usually make it halfway through before realizing I'm an idiot...again.

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm way smarter than Einstein.

    • @TheKamilkrawczak
      @TheKamilkrawczak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Try science asylum channel.

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheKamilkrawczak Einstein never nearly understood TIME, E=MC2, F=ma, gravity, or ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      He was, in fact, a total weasel.
      c2 represents a dimension ON BALANCE, as E=MC2 IS F=ma in accordance with the following:
      UNDERSTANDING THE ULTIMATE, BALANCED, TOP DOWN, AND CLEAR MATHEMATICAL UNIFICATION OF ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy AND gravity, AS E=MC2 IS CLEARLY F=ma:
      The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. E=MC2 IS F=ma, AS this proves the term c4 from Einstein's field equations. SO, ON BALANCE, this proves the fourth dimension. ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!
      TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. INDEED, TIME dilation ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      E=mC2 IS CLEARLY F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!
      By Frank DiMeglio

  • @alanfoxman5291
    @alanfoxman5291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    I love how the practical effect of this is that GPS satellites have to account for the time dilation effect in order to continue providing accurate coordinates/directions. When people ask what good all this theoretical physics is, that's my favorite example to give.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anyone wants to check out some yet-unkown-to-him/her science-youtuber?

    • @chuckdeuces911
      @chuckdeuces911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's a really great example but I wonder if you took a spaceship and lived as far away from gravity in our own solar system as you could how much extra time would you live? If there are ET's like in an ancient alien type of function it could possible that the same ET's that came to ancient Egypt could still be alive and coming back like it's believed by every single ancient mythology or religion too...

    • @chuckdeuces911
      @chuckdeuces911 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's kind of weird but at the same time if nothing is nothing than time doesn't apply to it but you have to have matter to matter. Pun not intended but true

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chuckdeuces911 The ultimate unification and understanding of physics/physical experience combines, BALANCES, AND INCLUDES opposites, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity.
      UNDERSTANDING THE BALANCED AND CLEAR MATHEMATICAL RELATION BETWEEN GRAVITY, “MASS", AND inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity:
      Balanced inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE is what is fundamental regarding BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, as gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; as E=MC2 is CLEARLY and necessarily F=ma ON BALANCE; as gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. Accordingly, ON BALANCE, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. (ENERGY has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE.) E=MC2 is CLEARLY and necessarily proven to be F=ma. Inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE is proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) GRAVITATIONAL force/energy, as this balances gravity AND inertia; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; as E=MC2 is CLEARLY and necessarily F=ma ON BALANCE. I have explained why THE PLANETS move away very, very, very slightly in relation to what is THE SUN on balance. Great. Gravity is ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. THE PLANETS are not falling in “curved" “space" in relation to what is THE SUN. Carefully consider WHAT IS THE EARTH. E=MC2 is CLEARLY proven to be F=ma ON BALANCE !!! Great.
      By Frank DiMeglio

    • @jenm1
      @jenm1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do they do that?

  • @adreanmarantz2103
    @adreanmarantz2103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +557

    Paused to watch -Can we break the universe?-, Paused THAT to watch -The Geometry of Causality-, How deep will this rabbit hole go?
    [edit: Thanks for the likes]

    • @jamieh4086
      @jamieh4086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      The rabbit hole goes until it's back on itself 😁

    • @opium42069
      @opium42069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      How dare you sir.

    • @mikepierson8623
      @mikepierson8623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      It may be weeks til anyone hears from you again

    • @johnimusic12
      @johnimusic12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Not sure of the answer, but what I do know is that I haven't been bored in quite a few years thanks to PBS space-time, and other similar TH-cam channels.

    • @remiscott9843
      @remiscott9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      PBSception...

  • @NeoCyrus777
    @NeoCyrus777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    "It's 2am, I'll just watch something calm and relaxing to help me fall asleep."
    Instead I was foolish enough to watch a physics video that melted my brain.

    • @zhul1988
      @zhul1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video simply explained that we all live in a virtual system. Everything breakdowns in numbers and equations.

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@zhul1988
      No, it didn't.

    • @rumblehansi
      @rumblehansi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Cyrus R.
      watch?v=87ZIU1SKLRk
      thank me later (or tomorrow)

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ReligionlessFAITH
      Anyone that capitalizes words the way you do always seem to have some emotional issues. Your words should be able to hold their own weight without exaggerated emphasis.
      "According to the rate of expansion of the spacial metric adhered to by academia, the peaches I grew last year should have grown larger than the size of sun"
      No, this is not true. You are conflating galactic phenomena with those observable in your backyard. They are not the same. Just as you can't use Newton's equations to predict the motion of electrons; you can't predict the behavior of objects at a galactic proportion.
      Einstein's general theory of relativity is one of the most successful theories of physics of all time. Your incoherent rambling and horrible analogies (barrels, really?) do not undo the successful predictions that has been drawn from the theory.
      ""WHERE IS THE EQUAL AND OPPOSITE COMPACTION which necessarily must accompany the alleged expansion"
      Necessarily according to a comparison between the universe and a balloon, or what? This erroneous critique was put to death years ago since observations are isotropic, not anisotropic. Moreover, the model predicts the behavior 1:1 so there's no issue outside of your confused lamentations.

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ReligionlessFAITH
      Ouch. You are a bit too out there for me. I hope the physics professors you keep e-mailing answer you eventually.

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +734

    The animation team should get an Emmy nomination.

    • @jakefromstate5813
      @jakefromstate5813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      CHOOOOOOOCLATEEEE RAAAAAAIAIANNNNNNN

    • @LupeSunglass
      @LupeSunglass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jakefromstate5813 A baby boy born without a brain

    • @corinnemuir1542
      @corinnemuir1542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TayZonday! Its great to see you here! A great man once said “The question is more important than the answer.” I was just reminded how connected we all are. :-D! Seeing your comment and yourself here made my day!

    • @seinfan9
      @seinfan9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      **I move away from the mic to dodge holy water.

    • @Mike-rt2vp
      @Mike-rt2vp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      During this cosmic fusion we see the release of many... 'Tayzons'

  • @lexsteel12
    @lexsteel12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    All this science, blows my mind. I find it fascinating. I truly wish I had the brain power to process all this information.

    • @robosing225
      @robosing225 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      this is why dummies believe the world is flat, gravity doesnt exist, and we live in a firmament.
      that's easier to explain than to understand the super detailed intricacies associated with time, gravity, physics, etc.

    • @JimEast123
      @JimEast123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robosing225 This makes me say whaaaat??? That makes me say WTF!? On a flat earth on a clear day in say Kentucky you should be able to see the Rockies and the Appalachians at the same time.

    • @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie
      @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie ปีที่แล้ว

      Me to

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

      In what way is it "science"?

    • @skite69ers
      @skite69ers ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vhawk1951kl if it is a fact and can be explain, it is science.

  • @djbme83
    @djbme83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Of all physics topics I've been exposed to in my life, time dilation has always been the most fascinating to me.

    • @barobaro1
      @barobaro1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      time doesn't actually exist... it's an emergent not a fundamental... so time doesn't actually slow down.... things just happen slower in faster velocity or more gravity because they have to travel a further distance compared to a stationery target for causality to actually take place.

    • @10418
      @10418 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      See “double slid experiment” then

    • @iiCounted-op5jx
      @iiCounted-op5jx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

    • @patrikengas6479
      @patrikengas6479 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@engineeringartist4801 "Time is constant"
      is it though?

    • @patrikengas6479
      @patrikengas6479 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@engineeringartist4801 alright then 👍

  • @PaulKruskamp
    @PaulKruskamp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    This topic warps the flow of my brain.

    • @tdmmcl1532
      @tdmmcl1532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      give it time...give it enough time and you'll rapidly never understand.

    • @hiru92
      @hiru92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      brain fluid ...

    • @svfantom7776
      @svfantom7776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Given enough time, your brain will begin to understand. Your feet will never have enough time to catch up though. 🙊

    • @lewcrew
      @lewcrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s just the weed my dude

    • @WadcaWymiaru
      @WadcaWymiaru 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah that not shaved guy is all wrong...

  • @Pravtok
    @Pravtok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    You underestimate how much of my life I spend in a horizontal position.

    • @kmb_jr
      @kmb_jr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I love this.

    • @neckreth
      @neckreth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's what she said

    • @xl000
      @xl000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      about 1/3 like the rest of the people.

    • @the_shed1960
      @the_shed1960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well i guess the front of your head will still tick a bit faster than the back (assuming your lying face up), even though the distance is less than a foot.

    • @vedantsridhar8378
      @vedantsridhar8378 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@neckreth not she, he :-D

  • @luilaskowski2011
    @luilaskowski2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thank you for revisiting this, Matt! What got me hooked on PBS Space Time was that series of videos on E=Mc^2 presented by Gabe, and I watched those many times. Your approach is very helpful and interesting.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except that he got EVERYTHING wrong in this video. Literally.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

      Complete nonsense and fantasy but doubtless interesting to credulous sheep, that cannot *help*but believe all that religious bunk.

  • @Hubcapdiamondstarhalo
    @Hubcapdiamondstarhalo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love this channel and its host. Filled with brilliant brain busters and really insightful. Thanks spacetime.

  • @markozagar
    @markozagar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    Blast! A physics cliffhanger! Now I'll have to sit on the edge of my seat until the next episode!

    • @goldenwarrior1186
      @goldenwarrior1186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If you fall off the cliff and somehow survive, then you should be able to watch the next video sooner since gravitational time dilation will make time from your reference frame go slower than time from your reference frame before falling off the cliff

    • @Pfhorrest
      @Pfhorrest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Spoilers: you know how if you drive your car diagonally off a paved road onto a dirt shoulder, the car kind pulls toward the dirt side as you do? That’s because the wheels on the dirt get slowed relative to the wheels on the pavement which turns the whole car like one side was being pulled back relative to the other.
      The speed of light in different media like water and air, plus that effect (things turn when one side of them gets slowed), is also why light bends when entering or exiting water.
      And the slowing of time near masses, plus that same effect, is why things curve toward them, i.e. gravity.

    • @goldenwarrior1186
      @goldenwarrior1186 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Pfhorrest “The wheels on the dirt go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the dirt go round and round, all day long.”

    • @bobinthewest8559
      @bobinthewest8559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He just wants you to "hit the bell, hit the bell. "

    • @toseecrapyvideos
      @toseecrapyvideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you mean you will be gravitionally bound to your chair, expecting their clocks to tick faster than yours so the video is uploaded sooner

  • @AtheistExpert
    @AtheistExpert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I'm not actually late, thats just the curvature of time professor.

    • @remiscott9843
      @remiscott9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🥇

    • @bondedomao
      @bondedomao 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Space... time! :)

    • @terrymiller111
      @terrymiller111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Instead of printing, I will use CURVATURE and record your grade with a flowing "F" instead of a block letter.

    • @jaimemaldonado4152
      @jaimemaldonado4152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My girlfriend's curves, not so good timing, now she's late .

  • @joshyoung1440
    @joshyoung1440 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think I've just realized why these videos are especially educationally important- it's BECAUSE they don't dive into inaccessible math, and instead focus on the part that academic courses can't as easily address: conceptual understanding. I was on the most accelerated math track in high school, skipping a total of two years and taking Calc 2 as a junior. Took advanced physics courses too (I was supposed to skip a year of that but had scheduling conflicts). And let me tell you, not to knock the education that I got, but it would have been SO MUCH MORE useful and comprehensive if I would have had the gazillion brilliant analogies and visualizations and everything else that makes this the most conceptually explanatory series I've ever seen. Again, not that teachers don't do a great job, but they just don't typically have the advantage of a highly educated creative team- it's mostly just them. These might have changed my future in ways that I would give anything for now. So yeah, this stuff is absolutely a scholastic treasure trove, and a truly good physics teacher would assign these as homework or watch them in class.

    • @jesus4400
      @jesus4400 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Space is FAKE.
      CGI, 3D animations, photoshop.

    • @ellenphillips9483
      @ellenphillips9483 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can change your future now!

  • @ultravidz
    @ultravidz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I understand this much: If one part of an object is progressing through time faster than another part, then there’s a net force on that object.

  • @emilishka4
    @emilishka4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    I just wrote up this long comment about how I've never understood how the photon clock generalizes to other orientations and then to prove my point I turned the clock on its side (i.e. parallel to motion) and did the math and found that it still works out. You win this time Einstein...

    • @setcheck67
      @setcheck67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Isn't the whole deal with Einstein that people have spent ages trying to prove him wrong SOMEHOW and they just can't?

    • @chillsahoy2640
      @chillsahoy2640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I'll get you, Einstein. And your little clock, too!

    • @chriskennedy2846
      @chriskennedy2846 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As an observer, how do you "see" the photons in either case? are there other separate photons bouncing off the ship's clock photons and then out to you standing on the sideline? Veritasium's speed of light video (oct 2020) addressed this. I like PBS Space Time and have been a subscriber for a long time but Matt's resolution of the twin paradox is total nonsense. I just watched his relativity paradox video. In fairness, it's no different than 95% of what all physicists spew. He says: "You need to follow the logic and the paradoxes will evaporate." Actually - if you follow the logic, you will see that Einstein himself did not use length contraction, simultaneity issues or a spacetime diagram to undo the paradox. And he certainly didn't invoke "changing frames" in the middle of a journey. Einstein used a K frame for the earth twin and a K' frame for the traveler and tracked what they would experience and how it would change during the 5 steps of the twin paradox journey (accel, inertial, decel/accel, inertial and finally decel). Each remained in their designated frame while at times (for traveler) experiencing gravity and other times not. A frame is not a physical "thing" yet physicists try to convince you that a frame change is mandatory so you will digest their nonsense. I have my issues with Einstein's resolution too but at least there is some plausibility there if not for the self-consistency problem (and GPS clocks). Spacetime diagrams on the other hand are so ridiculous they are the opposite of science.

    • @diemme568
      @diemme568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      it works only if you take into account the shrinking of distances in the direction of motion, though. otherwise it wouldn't; this is the beauty of the whole thing!

    • @sawdust1287
      @sawdust1287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Let’s not forget that Einstein didn’t kill himself.
      It was gravity.

  • @JaYoeNation
    @JaYoeNation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    I wish I could understand this better. My brain governor hits a wall well before I do.

    • @dickb2128
      @dickb2128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Well at least there are two of us of the same mind. Mine hit the wall at his reference to the other video....

    • @GeordiLaForgery
      @GeordiLaForgery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Same here, I get some of it and then my brain starts wondering off thinking about bills, rent etc.

    • @thedirectorschair1054
      @thedirectorschair1054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Stick your arm out at a right angle to your shoulder and close your fist. Then spin around once. In the same period of time your fist and your shoulder will cover two different distances with your fist travelling a far greater distance in a circle than your shoulder. i.e. the speed of your fist (distance divided by time) will be much faster than the speed of your shoulder, even though the two are connected. Your fist will therefore be moving through time, faster than your shoulder is.
      Now imagine a little person sat on your fist and a little person sat on your shoulder. When the person on your fist looks at the person on your shoulder, the shoulder person will be moving in slow motion, while the person on your shoulder will see the person on your fist moving in quick time.
      Now just replace your fist and shoulder with photons (light particles) which are the fastest known particle in the universe (the speed of light). Now, that means the speed of your fist photon and the speed of your shoulder photon are exactly the same, but fist photon has still travelled further than shoulder photon despite being exactly the same speed. The only way it can do that is if space is curved. And space can only be curved because of gravity and rotation. Thereby inextricably linking light, space, gravity, rotation (everything in the universe rotates to some degree) and 'relative time'. There may be such a thing as absolute time which is separate to relative time, if you can figure out how to travel in a straight line in a rotating universe.
      What this also means is that relative time travel should be possible if you can figure out a way to make fist photon and shoulder photon meet in the same place, allowing fast fist photon which has moved though time faster to interact with slow shoulder photon which has moved through time slower.
      C (
      If you imagine these two curves (curly c and open bracket) are photons beginning and ending at the same point, but the photon on the longer curve travels faster through the curve, even though technically they are travelling the same speed, but the rotation is further out - i.e. the longer your arm, the faster your fist will spin round compared to your shoulder.

    • @ericskutch5053
      @ericskutch5053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      keep watching physics videos. You will start to understand

    • @CyberiusT
      @CyberiusT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ericskutch5053 A bold assertion, that. Been watching this sort of popsci for as long as I can remember (>50 years), and whilst I know ad understand more than most of my friends, when it comes to relativity or quantum stuff I'm pretty much stuck at the point of understanding every word but missing the overall meaning.

  • @candented
    @candented 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Best buy explanation I've seen in a short video. Great imagery and science! Thank you!

  • @BennyBen9
    @BennyBen9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have great analogies. Which akes it a lot easier to understand . Thanks

  • @Raytheus
    @Raytheus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    This, combined with Veritasium's video entitled "Why Gravity is NOT a Force" are two of my most favourite videos of all time!
    Edit: But so is the latter’s video on how it is impossible to measure one-way speed of light!

    • @Sciolist
      @Sciolist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Check science asylum video on gravity, nick covered it earlier

    • @tylerboothman4496
      @tylerboothman4496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      And Vsauce's "What is Down?"

    • @jorgepeterbarton
      @jorgepeterbarton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@tylerboothman4496 yes, that one. YEARS earlier! But quite a different geodesic explanation to science asylums kind of "differential" type explanation.

    • @cmdr.shepard
      @cmdr.shepard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I still don't understand why. And I don't understand how gravitons work within curved space-time. If gravity isn't a force why does it have a force carrier? And how does that work?

    • @doctorwhoinfinite
      @doctorwhoinfinite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@cmdr.shepard technically, a graviton is a speculated force carrier if gravity is like a quantum field, "quantized gravity". But since we don't know for sure yet, it's just a placeholder

  • @yourstruly4817
    @yourstruly4817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Gravity is like madness, all it takes is a little push.

    • @TarkMcCoy
      @TarkMcCoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I've fallen for that before...

    • @thegaspatthegateway
      @thegaspatthegateway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      and you go laughing the whole way down

    • @shekel8245
      @shekel8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤨

    • @EvanRustMakes
      @EvanRustMakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we live in a society

  • @evanmoore8578
    @evanmoore8578 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you PBS. This tutorial actually makes far more sense out of gravity, space, and time than any of my public school teachers ever could.

  • @Lertic
    @Lertic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was brilliant! The visualisation was awesome and made it easier to understand the concept of time dilation.

  • @smartass8268
    @smartass8268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    In a video you said that it would never be too late to start with astronomy, so I started studying physics this year. :D

    • @ZetaFuzzMachine
      @ZetaFuzzMachine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yeah right!! I'm finishing next year at 32 years old

    • @elismarlosch2434
      @elismarlosch2434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is certainly never too late!

    • @ericgofast
      @ericgofast 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What encouraged you to start now if it's never too late?

    • @undisputeddespicable
      @undisputeddespicable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I heard somewhere that it's never too late to dream 👍

    • @tinecaatinecaa8144
      @tinecaatinecaa8144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ZetaFuzzMachine i am 30 now and would love to start study. How are the work chances aftwrwards?

  • @ShadaOfAllThings
    @ShadaOfAllThings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    the rephrase to the question "Why does slowed time cause gravity?" blew my mind. 10/10

    • @BartvandenDonk
      @BartvandenDonk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gravity makes the measurements hard. Say distance is measured in some unit. Gravity will change this unit itself, not the distance. It will bend the unit. Think of a 🏹. When gravity kicks in the unit which would be the length of the bow is than shorten to the length of the string. The greater Gravity it will shorten the string.

    • @paulapple6575
      @paulapple6575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah gravity is the effect, not a source itself

    • @BartvandenDonk
      @BartvandenDonk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulapple6575 everything is connected in a way. Like pressure, volume and temperature. I think there is a connection between: mass, light speed and gravity. There must be some formula to connect them together. The only way I can think of at this moment is that gravity bends everything. This bending can be in 3 dimensions at once. It makes it hard to understand.
      One way of imagination is covering the earth surface with donut shapes, but it could be balls also. Donuts shape give an idea of the force gravity has. The Bernoulli effect is part of it.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It also blew my respect for this guy. There is absolutely NOTHING to suggest that warped time causes gravity. If anything, it is the other way around. But in essence, it is MATTER which warps space. And it is the warped SPACE which causes the effect of gravity. Time bends only to assist in maintaining a CONSTANT SPEED OF LIGHT. On top of that, he got the effect of gravity on time COMPLETELY BACKWARDS. Your feet will age slightly SLOWER than your head, NOT the other way around. Geezus this guy is garbage.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulapple6575 GRAVITY is the effect of WARPED SPACE. And WARPED SPACE is caused by the presence of MATTER. TIME only warps in order to maintain a constant speed of light. This guy Matt is spouting garbage here.

  • @AnonymityIx
    @AnonymityIx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is easily the best way I've heard this explained over the years

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm always pleased I'm not giving the talk, so thank you for bearing the cost.
    Duality is such a difficult concept to make understandable but if the Equivalence Principle applies to the Rubber Sheet, the Quantum Operator/oscillator shapes of field contours in the Superspin-spiral standing wave-packaging formation, then the Actuality of high frequencies fine tuned Strain Gauge type measurement elasticity can be visualised from water turbulence spirals interactions.
    The manner in which boiling water organises in convection colums, and the whole process can be superimposed on a perspective-drawing basis of logarithmic spin-spiral condensation modulation/ interference sync-duration positioning, is a reasonably simple exercise in imagination.
    All the components of pure relative motion, axial-tangential instantaneous trancendental dimensionality coordination.., are easy to see "discreetly", and arrange in natural sequences, with practice. 0-1-2-3-4-etc proportioning in Singularity/infinite timing-phase, zero-infinity origin, of spin-spiral wave-particle Quantum-fields of density-intensity condensation contours.
    The "photon clock" idea is a functionally disastrous concept, because it's not even a wrongly conceived version of temporal superposition, ie of the kind that Henri Bergson tried to explain by simple observable actions and not the bright and shiny new model of Einsteinian Curvatures of Spacetime. Such is Academic Competition and conventional obsequiousness in heirachical Authority of those far off days...
    Holographic projection temporal superposition distance is not the perceived experience, as Relativity reasoning demonstrates. Inertial Frames of reference are snapshot pictures not holographic continuity and relative measurements of scalar density-intensity amplitude and frequency ("ticking") spectrum duality.
    "The easiest person to fool is yourself" most comprehensively with Mathematics thought to be Atemporal.
    Which is one of those perception paradox, wave-particle duration-duality Measurement Problem, statement of positioning, logarithmic condensation of time-timing mass-energy-momentum continuous creation connection cause-effect principle not object "sentencing" about Mathomagical existence that gives us headaches.
    _____
    I'm possibly over respectful of the mental exertion required to rise to the PhD Peerage and allow self-destructive pronouncements of unscientific opinions to persist. Case in point being BBT.
    Physics, in practice and Intuitive experience is the technique / technology of precision measurement, so the Psychology and accompanying Philosophy of deciding what to measure, how to define measurement and why there's relative significance to the comparative analysis of In-form-ation existing, substantiated by condensed metastable probability proportioning 0-1-2-3-4-etc nodal statements of vibrational logarithmic condensation embedded in Eternity-now Superspin Modulation Interval Conception.
    The making of music is the best example of Modulation +/- continuous cause-effect connection in instrumental devices that resonate according to the mental intentions (technique) of coordinated Musicians, by analysis of standing wave-packaging formation in context such as an Auditorium, Projection Theatre. Vocal Cords,Whistles Diaphragms etc are all modular components of "everything is waves".., of time-timing sync-duration here-now-forever Singularity. A general state of relationship to flat-space ground state projection-drawing positioning in perfect-pitch temporal superposition spin-spiral integration.
    This is absolute Disproof of BBT.
    The Tail does not wag the Dog, the brain is on the other end, and Logarithmic Time cannot be forced to conform to the First Principle Observation of QM-TIME Completeness cause-effect Actuality as if it were not inside-outside AM-FM continuous creation Communication of WYSIWYG.
    Adherence to the illusion of separation and discrete events running on personal programs, is a degree of insanity, or on the flipside we all have perceived godlike mind-body attributes because we're embedded in QM-TIMESPACE Actuality. But everyone can address the issues in their own way, with permission from their Conscience/Self.

  • @borisboekhoff5136
    @borisboekhoff5136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I love the „Portal“-reference in the Gedankenlab.

    • @ToTheStars327
      @ToTheStars327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Todd Starbuck Might be because he is german. In german language you write them like „“ , in english like " ". I also get this wrong pretty often.

    • @ericgulseth74
      @ericgulseth74 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the EM drive

  • @planetpeterson2824
    @planetpeterson2824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    “But first I need to give you a refresher on regular time dilation”
    Yeah don’t bother I won’t understand that either

    • @drdrew7475
      @drdrew7475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jamilah Toenailkilla are those testicles?

    • @yoshikagekira6166
      @yoshikagekira6166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@drdrew7475 yes.

    • @drdrew7475
      @drdrew7475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@yoshikagekira6166 Nice

    • @alwaysdisputin9930
      @alwaysdisputin9930 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joseph K IMO DrPhysicsA's the best but still it's not going to make a lot of difference. This video just doesn't answer the question why time slows around mass. AFAIK nobody does.
      It's something to do with mass interacting with the left hand side of Einstein field equation (which is the main equation in general relativity):
      Rᵤᵥ - ½gᵤᵥ R + Λ gᵤᵥ = 8πG Tᵤᵥ
      ̅ ̅c ̅⁴ ̅ ̅
      DrPhysicsA says: _"Now, the whole point about this equation is that it balances 2 things: everything on the left hand side refers to curvature of spacetime; everything on the RHS is to do with mass & energy."_
      On the left hand side of the equation, there are 4 suspects:
      Rᵤᵥ = Ricci curvature tensor
      gᵤᵥ = metric tensor
      R but with no indices = curvature scalar
      Λ = the cosmological constant
      1 of these guys did it! It interacts with mass & this is why time slows down.
      We can discount Λ "This term is a very, very small term & you will often find it will be left out of the Einstein field equations.
      It only becomes relevant when you're talking about major cosmological scales."

    • @heatherrhodge2588
      @heatherrhodge2588 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joseph K khan academy LMAO! My kindergartener has that on her school tablet! 😆

  • @MrSarevok187
    @MrSarevok187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    someting like this channel should be an international tv show this would benefit all :) love your channel

  • @martijn8554
    @martijn8554 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I somehow fell on this idea from your last video but it seems so fantastic. And now a cliffhanger! It seems that random Brownian motion in a time gradient might produce a fictitious force, but that would imply that at 0 Kelvin there would be no gravity, which would have been noticed by now. Can't wait till next week.

  • @ilkoderez601
    @ilkoderez601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Another GREAT episode. PBS Space Time is like a really good long term stock. You guys rock! Thanks you!!! Still my favorite YT channel.

  • @chiblast100x
    @chiblast100x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Watching part of this episode just reminded me that I was wondering some years ago about the impact of all relevant motion on our experiential perception of gravity (and thereby space-time) within all the relevant gravity fields, but never got around to looking into it and eventually let it fall off my mental list of things to read up on.

  • @whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306
    @whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only thing more amazing then this is the fact someone figured it out. It kind of demonstrates that things we think we can never know we might be able to if the right mind can figure it out.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you aware that one of the meanings of "amaze" is stupefy?

  • @heckensteiner4713
    @heckensteiner4713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This gravity series is amazing. I've always been taught mass creates gravitational fields I never knew WHY that was the case or WHAT gravity actually is. I've seen this video (and others) discussed on physics forums. The "experts" there seem write all of this off and say that curved space is what's responsible for gravity, but I feel like that only tells half of the story (it is space-time after all). One question though: does this negate the idea of gravitons in quantum mechanics?

  • @TheV8Pumpkin
    @TheV8Pumpkin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was always bad in bio/chem and struggled to keep up in high school/college... I found I really understood and loved astronomy after I finished up school and its so unfortunate how "mandatory science classes" completely took away from my time to learn about the subject I truly loved :/ channels like these are absolute godsends such high level lessons I can binge on for free!

    • @aidanmargarson8910
      @aidanmargarson8910 ปีที่แล้ว

      you really should check out the MIT free lecture series .. you can basically learn anything given unlimited time this show "I don't have a math brain is not true"

    • @aidanmargarson8910
      @aidanmargarson8910 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/ANCN7vr9FVk/w-d-xo.html

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't tell me you *believed* all that religious mumbo jumbo about toms etc?
      I doubt if you were ever given any choice in the matter, but purely as a matter of anodyne academic interest, *why* do you believe a ll that superstitious bunk about whatever atoms are su[opposed by the religious to be?
      Bearing in mind that what you are *told* cannot constitute evince, what -if any real hard evidence was produced to you to prove the existence of whatever atoms are supposed by the religious(*Believers*) to be -for example an atom or eelectron that you could yourself examine, or are you going to tell me that you were provided with no such evidence whatsoever?
      You do not by any chance suppose that if other credulous imbecile children or sheep accept without question what they are or have been * told* that that necessarily makes it true, do you?
      We grownups call that the fallacious supposition that there is a democracy of truth otherwise known as the fallacy argumentum ad populum, which supposition is quite common amongst the lower classes or credulous imbecile children that simply *cannot*understand why it is fallacious, they seeming to suppose that believing or accepting without question simply *and only* because others believe, to be a rational basis for accepting what they are *told* as true, or that which is and cannot be different, but then that is why they are called the 'lower' classes; their betters know for a certainty that there is no democracy of truth o or that the " oh but most people.... bullshit is bullshit

    • @johnconnor7501
      @johnconnor7501 ปีที่แล้ว

      “I don’t have a math brain is not true” I don’t understand what you are trying to say.

  • @DasPuppy
    @DasPuppy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Just when I was asking myself: "Wait, does gravity cause time to slow down, or does slowing down time cause gravity?" we get this cliff hanger with this exact same question!
    My brain is mush right now.. :D .. But if time slowing down causes gravity, what causes time to slow down?

    • @dankuchar6821
      @dankuchar6821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think a better way to say it is the latter, the slowing down of time is what gives us the illusion of a force, or what we call gravity.

    • @spiritual84
      @spiritual84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That would be mass I believe, if time slowing down is the true cause of gravity
      Somehow a heavy mass causes time to slow down, giving the effect of gravity.
      We just usually go straight from mass -> gravity, skipping the time slowing down part

    • @Unknowngfyjoh
      @Unknowngfyjoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It doesn't have to be a heavy mass. Even smaller masses do it, but it's not as noticeable. So the question becomes...
      Why and how does mass (aka condensed energy) cause time (and space) to distort?

    • @Eronx
      @Eronx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Once i discussed this with a friend. I told him, that I believe that time is the real source why space isn’t just a point. That time blows up space and let it float like a kite in the wind. And that matter some how stops this and that’s why space trending back to a (x0,y0,z0) volume in presence of matter. That was my explanation for gravity in our discussion.
      He laughed. No I’m not a physician, but at least I was not totally wrong.

    • @emperorzero2199
      @emperorzero2199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Eronx your thinking is appreciated by me, I don't know why your frd laughed it off, maybe he wasn't able to grasp this beautiful idea. I myself, have a relatively similar thinking about time.

  • @d.g.1986
    @d.g.1986 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive been wondering about this for years... Finally get it!

  • @aneikei
    @aneikei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Shouldn't your feet age 1 sec less (not more) than your head as time is running slower closer to the earth?

    • @bogdan9558
      @bogdan9558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea , he iverted it

    • @asvpab
      @asvpab 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the closer to the center of mass, the slower time moves and therefore it would age faster

    • @aneikei
      @aneikei 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@asvpab no, it ages slower. Time moves slower closer to a gravitational mass. Not faster. That's what the Einstein equations suggests.

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank God I've been waiting for this to be explained on Spacetime for literal years. Thank you!!
    EDIT: I have learned nothing. 😭

    • @narfwhals7843
      @narfwhals7843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe this video will help you. It gives a nice visual analogy for why time causes gravitational attraction th-cam.com/video/F5PfjsPdBzg/w-d-xo.html

    • @vblaas246
      @vblaas246 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@narfwhals7843 This guy is saying that time moves faster at your head than toes. Matt is saying the opposite. One of them is wrong. Matt is right, pretty sure. Still a gradient though.
      My thought: if things go faster -> more entropy generation. 2nd law: energy tends to get dispersed if it can do so, and it can do so here. In time dilation. That is pretty cool. Still sounds a bit like a chicken-egg though.

    • @narfwhals7843
      @narfwhals7843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vblaas246 Matt is wrong. Time ticks slower near massive objects. He actually says this several times in the video. But he gets it wrong at the beginning and when he says your butt ticks faster to keep you in your chair. It's an error in his script, though. Not his reasoning.
      The science asylum talks about why that isn't a chicken and egg problem in the pinned comment to his video. And i assume Matt will talk about it in the next video as well.

    • @fivish
      @fivish 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      anything!

    • @titaniumspecial4207
      @titaniumspecial4207 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why the calculation didn't include the sun's gravitational field which obviously we are in also with the earth's own gravity.

  • @dard1515
    @dard1515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Right now, your butt is ticking faster than your head. Don't give me the motivation to change that." -Some space cowboy that just wants to drink in peace.

    • @tubehepa
      @tubehepa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Does this mean that in Yogic Flying (aakaasha-gamanam), your head starts ticking faster than your butt?? (see yoga-suutra III 42 : yogasutrastudy.info/yoga-sutra-translations/ysp-sutras3-41-3-55/ )? :D

    • @apienootiemiesie9852
      @apienootiemiesie9852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Isn't your head ticking faster then your bud?

    • @kevinba6633
      @kevinba6633 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cue Knights of Cydonia

    • @geordi5054
      @geordi5054 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@apienootiemiesie9852
      You can easily understand it if you think of a string attached to a rotating sphere. The attached end of the string moves first, follow by the end of the string which starts to move in a time gradient, and the stress between the two points is gravity.

  • @Adam-jw3uz
    @Adam-jw3uz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember a lot of this from that old Oculus Go app you guys made years ago. That was a really fun experience, and I still go back and replay it from time to time just for how engaging it was. Are there any plans to release a sequel or a remaster on newer VR hardware?

    • @marchog5276
      @marchog5276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What was the name of the application. Longshot considering the comment is a year old but worth a shot.

  • @phuturephunk
    @phuturephunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't understand a lick of that, but I nodded like I did anyway. Thanks Matt!

  • @juanchanchito134
    @juanchanchito134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    You mention several times in the video how “clocks tick less in a gravitational field” but then say “your butt ticks faster than your head” considering your head is higher up in the gravitational field shouldn’t it be “your butt ticks slower than your head”?
    Same for the “your feet will age one more second than your head” shouldn’t they age one less second?

    • @donotstalkme
      @donotstalkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Your head is moving faster than your feet, it's angular speed is greater. Therefore time passes slower to your head when compared to your feet. That's why satellite clocks need to have their time adjusted or else they become out of sync with the clocks on the surface of the Earth.

    • @juanchanchito134
      @juanchanchito134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@donotstalkme you are referring to relative motion time dilation. He is not referring to this time dilation because he uses the argument that you are stuck to your chair (you have a gravitational pull) because of gravitational time dilation (head and butt ticking at different rates)

    • @LA-MJ
      @LA-MJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@donotstalkme Speed causes satellite clocks to slow down, weaker gravity causes them to speed up. In fact even more than the other way around. So the question stands. I also think Matt is confusing/ed here

    • @vorador4365
      @vorador4365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      From my understanding for strictly gravitational time dilation, clocks closer to the centre of gravitational well will tick slower and less time should pass, therefore the feet should age one second less than your head.

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@LA-MJ
      He messed up. You can read about it here:
      www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/63539/

  • @ZirkMan
    @ZirkMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Sorry, you have it backwards: My butt is ticking slower than my head, unless you are doing a handstand 😀

    • @yin-chengkrishuang8405
      @yin-chengkrishuang8405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      There’s the same “error” in the beginning that he mentioned the feet age 1 second more than the head. 😅

    • @sammorrow8420
      @sammorrow8420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yea, I caught that also. Maybe he's testing us...🤔

    • @joecat4892
      @joecat4892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sammorrow8420 easy mistake to make... you're thinking more (in terms of grav) and then instead you say age more... easy done. .

    • @stephenderry9488
      @stephenderry9488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If your butt is ticking, maybe you should see a doctor?

    • @LazyEinstein
      @LazyEinstein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He responses to this at the end of the "Gravitational waves discovered?" video. Thanks audience for pointing out the error.

  • @ianalvord3903
    @ianalvord3903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:55 YOU DID IT! You finally made me understand!

    • @barobaro1
      @barobaro1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      can u explain to me?

  • @patgoley
    @patgoley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m a little confused here, shouldn’t my feet age slower than my head standing in a gravity well?? In the extreme case of standing on the event horizon of a black hole, my feet would be frozen in time while my head still ages.

    • @Devilogic
      @Devilogic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree. Time should tick slower for my feet (and butt) than for my head, not faster as stated in the episode. Unless I'm missing something?

    • @BellaVZio
      @BellaVZio ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly, that threw me off the chair thinking "Damn, everything I understood up until now is worthless".

    • @aeos5670
      @aeos5670 ปีที่แล้ว

      The feet experience 1 second less of time so they age more than head per time alive. Maybe that’s how he meant it

  • @jameshines9253
    @jameshines9253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I feel like he's throwing me a curve ball,I need more time to understand this!

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      alright everyone, give him some space.

    • @BartvandenDonk
      @BartvandenDonk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You're more right than you think!
      Gravity is a bending force, it does not pull.

    • @MauricioRPP1
      @MauricioRPP1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or throw him in a rocket accelerating for a round trip in the galaxy!

    • @sammorrow8420
      @sammorrow8420 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Be careful, he got some of it backwards. Find the mistake.

  • @snekmeseht
    @snekmeseht 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I wonder who is closer to understanding this concept, myself or my dog.

  • @Caleb-lu3zl
    @Caleb-lu3zl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was the best video I've ever seen about time dilation

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I saw the title, my first thought was "Wow, that's a really complicated topic for a video."
    But then I remembered what I've been watching the last couple of years on this series.

  • @fabiant.2485
    @fabiant.2485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Looking forward to the next episode.
    I am curious if it aligns with my intuitive understanding of the emergence of gravity:
    All objects are in constant motion though spacetime.
    The sum of their velocities through the spacial dimensions and the temporal dimension always adds up to the speed of light.
    A photon moves through space at the speed of light, thus it doen't move through the temporal dimension at all, i.e. it doesn't experience time.
    An observer "at rest" doesn't move through space at all, thus he/she moves through the temporal dimension at the speed of light, i.e. they age.
    The presence of any mass bends the "forward" angles of the temporal dimension *into* the spatial dimension.
    Thus forward velocity through time is converted into forward velocity through space towards the center of the mass.
    This leads to objects being accelerated towards the gravitational well, and also objects experiencing a slowed passage of time in the gravitational field, as their temporal velocity is converted into spatial velocity.

    • @oldbatwit5102
      @oldbatwit5102 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This doesn't explain alien lizards.

  • @armchairgravy8224
    @armchairgravy8224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    "Why does slowed time cause gravity?" Mind blown.

    • @earthbound9381
      @earthbound9381 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mind blown too. But that's such a new idea that I can hardly wait.
      Luv your non de plume dude.

    • @McSmooth5150
      @McSmooth5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simple light. Light can't ever slow down and anything that bends slows its velocity

    • @cornejoronron
      @cornejoronron 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why can't gravity pull a feather down as fast as a 1lb weight ? Knowing that the feather being lighter has less resistance to gravity. Gravity should pull it down just as fast but it dosent .. the ashes off the tip of my cigarette are just as light as a feather but the ash will fall at the speed of the 1lb weight, why is that ? Dose gravity only work on certain things ? Are feather exempt from gravity? Something doesn't make sense here. It has to do with the density or weight of the object. Some how feathers are not recognized by gravity. The spin of the earth 1000 miles per hour. The speed of the earth arround the sun. 67.000 miles an hour. The speed of the sun 828.000 kilometers per hour .. now the earth has to Mach that to keep up with the sun. So you have the earth traveling at 3 different speeds ..
      1.000 mph +67.0000 mph +828.000 kph
      It dosent make sense we should be feeling some kind of nausea at those speeds but no somehow miraculously we don't feel a thing now those are some mighty mighty speeds there yet we don't feel a thing it doesn't make mathematical sense and it doesn't make physical sense and it doesn't make neurological sense. It does make for a lot of nonsense. People are waking up they're starting to figure out the truth so be careful with these so called experts put in your head. They are experts at what? All I see expertise here is in deception and lies. No matter how fast we're going how many times we're spinning everything else moves except the North Star it's always in place never moving yeah it's traveling at its own speed the other way. Can you see it or can you not see it?

    • @McSmooth5150
      @McSmooth5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@cornejoronron Just go learn physics and these questions will become so funny to yourself after.

    • @McSmooth5150
      @McSmooth5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cornejoronron everything about the "speeds" We travel. They are velocities. And that's the whole point of einstein's relativity of velocities. You can test it your self well your driving in your car and you look and see a jet flying way above you and then a boy beside you coasting on a skate board..... same with the sun earth galaxy.

  • @wyskass861
    @wyskass861 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that this is the first time I heard admission about the confusing aspect of common visuals of space time curvature using 2d space to demonstrate time. The spheres on fabric analogies to me created more confusion than clarity.

  • @tdwtdw7926
    @tdwtdw7926 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Using this video to teach grade 6 students about the equivalence between acceleration and gravity.
    To explain this i needed talk about how acceleration is a change in velocity. And what that really measures in terms of time.

  • @PerfectlyNormalBeast
    @PerfectlyNormalBeast 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I wish it was called "speed of causality" instead of "speed of light"
    Seems more intuitive to me - unless I'm misunderstanding
    edit: suggested below - "speed of interaction". I guess I'm not getting the difference
    I guess in my head, I have causality and information flow as the same thing

    • @tildessmoo
      @tildessmoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What's more intuitive is up to the individual. Causality is possibly more fundamental, since light moving at that speed appears to be a consequence of the properties of the universe (ie: all massless particles move at the fastest speed possible, and photons just happen to be massless), but we don't actually know if causality itself is fundamental or derived (certainly, the fact that time dilation allows for two observers to see different causal chains calls causality's foundational nature into question); or if the speed of photons is, in fact, derived rather than fundamental, just because it _appears_ that way in our mathematical models. The most fundamental description may be the "speed of interaction," which allows causal chains to be reversed, but still fit into a 4d sphere of space-time where the time dimension scales with the spatial dimensions, because all causal chains involve interactions (including the propagation of waves in quantum fields) propagating through spacetime no faster than C.

    • @dankuchar6821
      @dankuchar6821 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The speed of light just also is the speed of causality. So yeah I get your point. What people think is that everything else travels at the speed of light. And you're right, what they don't understand is that light travels at the speed of causality.

    • @jaysalbhatt2501
      @jaysalbhatt2501 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speed of light is the consequence of the electric field causing the magnetic field and visa versa.

    • @dankuchar6821
      @dankuchar6821 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaysalbhatt2501 I'm your clothes. But the electric field has to change. It's part of one of Maxwell's equations. A changing magnetic field induces a changing electric field and vice versa. So yes that is true.

    • @allenho2778
      @allenho2778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jaysalbhatt2501 It is actually broader than that. Gravitational waves and massless particles also travel at speed of light in vacuum.

  • @bjnslc
    @bjnslc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The EmDrive isn't a joke that resonates with me.

    • @feihcsim7045
      @feihcsim7045 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes i was personally offended

    • @jaydenkerslake215
      @jaydenkerslake215 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was this supposed to be a joke because if so then it's a good one

  • @DrZwicky707
    @DrZwicky707 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have read dozens of books on GR, watched countless videos, and even picked up a few graphic novels but none of those came close to the explanation and visual representation this video gives you of Time Dilation.

  • @RodrigoBarbosaBR
    @RodrigoBarbosaBR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    "You are held down because your butt is ticking faster than your head"
    #science

    • @andrewkemp70
      @andrewkemp70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If time runs slower in gravitational fields then shouldn’t the butt tick slower than the head? I scratched my head at that one..

    • @haveagreatday9865
      @haveagreatday9865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andrewkemp70 to the head it seems like time for the butt has almost stopped completely while the butts time is flowing into its own hole

    • @michaeld4861
      @michaeld4861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrewkemp70 exactly, he keeps switching it around when he uses analogies but then says the opposite when explaining how it works.

    • @magnuscottam598
      @magnuscottam598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrewkemp70 and head should be 1 second older than feet

    • @OmarCapricorn
      @OmarCapricorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shouldn’t time run slower the nearer to earths surface, therefore your head would age more than your feet?

  • @CLipka2373
    @CLipka2373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    12:00 - "Your butt is ticking faster than your head" - Wait, what? Shouldn't that be the other way round? Unless I'm standing on my head, that is.

    • @danielgrizzlus3950
      @danielgrizzlus3950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And he also said at the start that the feet would be one second older. But I feel like it should be the other way around, shouldn't your feet be one second younger, since time moves slower for them?

    • @dicebar_
      @dicebar_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine there are two rings on the space station, an inner and outer ring, each with its own photon clock. To the outside observer, the photons in the clock in the outer ring will have the longest distance to travel. This means that people in the outer ring will experience less ticks per full rotation of the space station.
      Because the inner ring (read: your feet) experience more ticks, they're older.
      That's also why you can only travel into the future using higher relativistic speeds. If you were to take a ship and park your ship close to the sun while matching Earth's orbit, you would come back older than you would've been if you'd stayed on Earth.
      The real mindbender lies in the fact that from the perspective of an observer on the spacestation, the outside observer experiences time more slowly... But for the answer to that you really should (re)watch the video on paradoxes.

    • @TheInserireNOME
      @TheInserireNOME 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      headass- hovey benjamin

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dicebar_
      No, you got it wrong and are only confusing yourself. You should read this:
      www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/63539/

    • @benbooth2783
      @benbooth2783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Matt doesn't explain this well and misses some subtlety. When considering the relative age of your head and feet there are two effects occurring. Gravitational time dilation (general relativity) and relativistic time dilation (special relativity).
      We need set up two frames of reference; clock 1 is on the surface of the Earth, clock 2 is higher up in orbit and there is one person observing both clocks stood next to clock 1. General relativity predicts that the clock 1 will run slower than clock 2 when observed by our person, this makes your head age faster than your feet, you are correct.
      The circumference of clock 2's orbital path is longer than the circumference of the Earth and therefore longer than the orbit of clock 1 and the person, however all complete one orbit in the same time. Therefore clock 2 is travelling faster then clock 1 and the person, special relativity predicts that this will cause clock 2 to run slower when observed by our person.
      The two effect counteract each other. In the case of the Earth, general relativistic effects are very weak because the Earth isn't very massive or dense, so the special relativistic effects are dominant. Therefore your head ages slower than your feet.

  • @peplegal8253
    @peplegal8253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I see 300K visualizations in only two days, for hard stuffs like this, I get this feeling of hopefulness for human kind.

  • @josephsalomone
    @josephsalomone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've always enjoyed calling gravity as real of a force as the centrifugal force for these exact reasons.

  • @blsman115
    @blsman115 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scrolling past this video causes a little visual illusion because of the thumbnail. Definitely recommend more of that because it caught my attention real quick

  • @brianturner5995
    @brianturner5995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "You're held in your chair because your butt is ticking faster that your head." A classic line if I ever heard one :)

    • @andyreznick
      @andyreznick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It might make a fine niche T-shirt.

  • @pernordin2641
    @pernordin2641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting and well explained.
    I do deeply appreciate that it is several times pointed out that the conclusions are based on axioms: if the axioms are correct or not makes the world of difference.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you realize that his main two points in this video are COMPLETELY WRONG? Your feet will age SLOWER than your head, NOT FASTER. And, time dilation is NOT what causes gravity. It is the warping of SPACE (caused by the presence of matter) which explains gravity. The warping of TIME only serves to maintain a constant speed of light.

    • @breacher212
      @breacher212 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@djbenje4019 How come you are the only one mentioning this in the comments (as far as I saw)!? He starts the video by saying that feet would be older, but then explains that in higher gravity time passes slower. Am I missing something everyone else understands?

  • @theArgonautics
    @theArgonautics 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the subtle EM drive floating with the guy. :D

  • @paulgoodridge2494
    @paulgoodridge2494 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Matt, Can't wait for the next video on 'Time makes Gravity'. I get frustrated when folk say gravitational time dilation is a small effect on earth - when, as you say, it's enough to make most of our gravity. I think our perception just means we are using the wrong units for time. If we used 'light-metre' as our time measurement - it would be much more obvious!

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The warping of time is NOT responsible for 'making gravity'. It is the presence of MATTER which warps space-time. Then, it is the warping of SPACE which causes GRAVITY. The warping of TIME AND SPACE TOGETHER enables the speed of light to remain constant. And Matt made a GLARING MISTAKE when he claimed that your feet will age FASTER than your head. It's the other way around. Unbelievable how flawed and false this entire video is...

    • @FormerLiberal88
      @FormerLiberal88 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@djbenje4019 wait so he didn't just mix up the head to foot example. This whole video is wrong? What was he wrong about?

  • @GregoryCarnegie
    @GregoryCarnegie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wait, don't clocks tick slower in a G-field? So when your dead, wouldn't your feet have experienced fewer ticks of the clock compared to your head meaning that your head would be 1 second older than your feet instead?

    • @thenasadude6878
      @thenasadude6878 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well in Australia everything is upside down, so Matt must be Australian for his statement to hold true

    • @donotstalkme
      @donotstalkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your head is moving faster than your feet, it's angular speed is greater. Therefore time passes slower to your head when compared to your feet. That's why satellite clocks need to have their time adjusted or else they become out of sync with the clocks on the surface of the Earth.

    • @watsisname
      @watsisname 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Gregory You are correct. Also it amounts to about half a microsecond, not a full second. I think the 1 second result Matt claimed is instead about right for the time dilation on Earth's surface compared to somewhere far away from Earth, over the course of a lifetime.

    • @watsisname
      @watsisname 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@donotstalkme You are forgetting the general relativistic effect, which in this case is much stronger. Your example with GPS satellites is a good one. We might think their clocks tick slower because of their orbital speed, but a competing effect is that time passes more slowly in a stronger gravitational field. For GPS satellite altitude and speeds, it is that general relativistic effect that dominates, and time for GPS satellites runs faster than time on Earth's surface.

    • @RichardWilkin
      @RichardWilkin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@donotstalkme The time gradient is because mass slows time. It is not because of angular momentum.

  • @rvaughan74
    @rvaughan74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Did anyone else notice the ship compressing and decompressing with its changing speed? Very accurate to relativity.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anyone wants to check out some yet-unkown-to-him/her science-youtuber?

  • @jamesburrelljr.8561
    @jamesburrelljr.8561 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wow that made my head spin at the end

  • @peterb9481
    @peterb9481 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I am right, I think Matt said it the wrong way - I’m sure he knows the right way and simple mix up.
    I believe your head ages faster than your feet.
    The earths gravitational field is stronger on it’s surface than on moving up from it.
    The stronger the gravitational field - the more space is stretched and the further things have to travel and thus they take longer i.e. time slows down.
    Interesting and good episode!

  • @michalchik
    @michalchik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Your feet will age 1 second less. Your feet are in the slower time field

    • @_shadow_1
      @_shadow_1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @ No, then you would be pulled upwards. The earth's rotation is a factor, but it's not significant enough to reverse gravity.

    • @michalchik
      @michalchik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ true but then every thing is going to depend on latitude. Time to write an equation for time dilation as a function of latitude.

    • @YuvrajChakraverty
      @YuvrajChakraverty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ but then how would you explain the same phenomenon for a stationary earth?

    • @richardjanowski7219
      @richardjanowski7219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @ I agree. He makes a similar mistake at 12:02.

    • @teapot_
      @teapot_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mark Smileer Do you like repeating yourself.? Doesn't make your point any more important.

  • @thetommantom
    @thetommantom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Can I use this as an argument to beat speeding tickets. The road has a Crest, its beat up not flat has weird angles so when I drive straight down the fall line it's actually an angle relative to a stationary observer and I only appear to be going faster because I'm traveling a shorter distance

    • @SpindlyScoudrel
      @SpindlyScoudrel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Police officer: No

    • @Xeridanus
      @Xeridanus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The speed cameras are calibrated for that.

    • @thetommantom
      @thetommantom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Anne O'Nymous it's cheaper to be as smart as a lawyer and do you're own bidding 😆

  • @mikeh5431
    @mikeh5431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Utterly mind blowing

  • @wolflahti412
    @wolflahti412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Your butt is ticking faster than your head."
    That explains _so_ much!

  • @carsonwerner
    @carsonwerner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thabks so much Dr. O’Dowd. I hope to meet you one day!

  • @marcelluswallace6240
    @marcelluswallace6240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love it when Matt pronounces German words like Gedankenexperiment.

    • @yoshikagekira6166
      @yoshikagekira6166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah yes the Getnaked experiment. I did it with my girlfriend once.

  • @phenom568
    @phenom568 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What I dislike in these conversations is how the word time is thrown out without a definition. What are you measuring when you say time? In this case it seems to be the distance the light travels in a "clock".

  • @Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo
    @Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The theme you use is so nostalgic to me for some reason! I can’t place it.

  • @tyronfoston7123
    @tyronfoston7123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That was a MASSIVE cliffhanger. Now I'm itching for the next episode.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry to break it to you, but this entire 'episode' was flawed garbage.

    • @tyronfoston7123
      @tyronfoston7123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@djbenje4019 can you explain? Always looking for an opposing view.

    • @djbenje4019
      @djbenje4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tyronfoston7123 For starters, his entire assertion that "your feet will age FASTER than your head" is completely wrong. It's the EXACT OPPOSITE, in fact. The closer you are to the gravity source, the SLOWER time passes. That's BASIC relativity theory 101. I can't tell you how heinous a 'mistake' it is for him to make.
      Second, there is NO BASIS WHATSOEVER for him to suggest that it is time dilation (the warping of time) that CAUSES gravity. If anything, it would be the other way around. According to Einstein, the presence of MATTER is what warp's space-time, and it is the warping of SPACE which causes the effect of GRAVITY (which makes perfect sense, right? space curves in such a way that objects fall 'downhill' through space). The warping of TIME occurs in order to ensure that the speed of light remains constant, regardless of how much gravity there is, or how fast the object is travelling. Remember, the formula to calculate speed, SPEED = DISTANCE / TIME. Hope that helps.

  • @IuliusPsicofactum
    @IuliusPsicofactum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The first statement confused me. Wouldn't my feet time go slower in a stronger gravitational field?

    • @Vasharan
      @Vasharan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had the same reaction.
      Maybe because feet are in motion more than heads?

    • @dabeste6163
      @dabeste6163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Matt is Australian. Which means from his perspective, the feet are on top.
      I'm not serious, obviously.

    • @bruhguy4215
      @bruhguy4215 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Vasharan but time dialation due to kinematics is only significant for v -->c. I don't think it would play a significant role. But about the statement, yah I think that was a mistake. Ur feet would age lesser than ur head.

    • @IuliusPsicofactum
      @IuliusPsicofactum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Vasharan Because of rotation? But that is not the point haha, it is supposed to be about gravity.

    • @ge48421
      @ge48421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Vasharan If you assume that feet are mostly used for walking, i.e. they move at about a 90 degree angle w.r.t. the gravitational pull, then the resulting acceleration is even higher, and the time will go slower for moving feet compared to stationary feet. That's probably true for any movement. So if you tapdance your whole life long your feet may age even slower than your head.

  • @fickyrisher
    @fickyrisher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:55 I didn't know how the pause button worked, so I grabbed my laptop superman jumped at near light speed watched the other video and got back just in time to catch the rest of this vid.. bonus, my dinner is cooked ;)

  • @josephbradley8050
    @josephbradley8050 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Zoowee!!! The graphics & animation is super-duper. Superman lives!!!!!

  • @CLipka2373
    @CLipka2373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Kinematic Time Dilation" - took me a moment to realize he didn't say "Cinematic Time Dilation" aka Slo-Mo...

  • @glasslakes
    @glasslakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm a simple man. I see PBS Space Time, I upvote.

    • @alejandromunozpaz4036
      @alejandromunozpaz4036 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      #redditmomento

    • @glasslakes
      @glasslakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alejandromunozpaz4036 I wanted to right "Like" but it didn't sound as good :/

    • @deepfriedsammich
      @deepfriedsammich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      People who live in deterministic universes all need their little escapes.

  • @DelorianTracking
    @DelorianTracking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks a lot for today's nerdgasm.
    I wouldn't have expected for it to be this satisfying, hearing you utter the possibility of temporal velocity to be responsible for gravitational effects. While I usually imagine the spatial differences to be what brings gravity into effect, well, tomaato tomayto when it comes to spacetime.
    You have a layman's gratitude.

  • @LaurensPP
    @LaurensPP 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really cool way to revisit the relativity brothers!

  • @MarcosRodriguesCarvalho
    @MarcosRodriguesCarvalho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    “The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person..."

  • @wZem
    @wZem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    12:00 wait my butt is closer to earth, thus experiencing time slower than my head. shouldn't it be "your butt is ticking SLOWER than your head"?
    why do you have to confuse me like this right at the end after I thought I understood most of it…?

    • @donotstalkme
      @donotstalkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your head is moving faster than your feet, it's angular speed is greater. Therefore time passes slower to your head when compared to your feet. That's why satellite clocks need to have their time adjusted or else they become out of sync with the clocks on the surface of the Earth.

    • @Milan_Openfeint
      @Milan_Openfeint 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@donotstalkme Uh huh you got it wrong here sir. Your head would have to move about 4m/s faster than your feet to compensate gravitational time dilation, but is only 0.00007 m/s faster.
      Unless I'm wrong, obviously. But there is no mention of Earth rotation in the Pound-Rebka experiment.

    • @donotstalkme
      @donotstalkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Milan_Openfeint I really do not know what is the threshold for speed VS depth delta in this specific case, you may be right.

    • @Aramil4
      @Aramil4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@donotstalkme Then don't be so confident in your answers/comments to people. You have just spread misinformation across several threads in this comment section... Matt in the video just slipped up and said the opposite of what he meant (confirmed).

    • @wayneyadams
      @wayneyadams 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not really, the time dilation due to the difference in speed is much less that the gravitational time dilation. The proof of this comes from GPS satellites that are in geosynchronous orbits (take 24 hours to complete one orbit so they appear stationary) over the Equator. They orbit at an altitude of 26,199 miles, at a speed of 6,876 MPH. The result is that their clocks run slower by 7 micro-seconds per day (7 millionths) due to their speed, but run 45.9 microseconds faster due to the gravitational time dilation on the surface which slows the clocks. The result is that the clocks run 38.9 micro seconds per day FASTER on the GPS satellites. The same is true, to a much lesser extent, for your head and feet.

  • @schopenhauer5427
    @schopenhauer5427 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't understand any of this, but I appreciate the the content and support the channel

  • @adamadict
    @adamadict 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was so stimulating, I understood about 20% of that but boy, that was some 20%!

  • @Mr2ronron
    @Mr2ronron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Glad to hear a diss on the “ rubber sheet” model of gravity. Aggravation every time I see that model used as it is misleading in it’s 2D oversimplification of a reality of much greater complexity and many more dimensions.

    • @toseecrapyvideos
      @toseecrapyvideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      like i saw in another video: *you cant explain gravity by using gravity*

    • @neth77
      @neth77 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah the first problem is that the dip should be occurring from every angle. 2D representations annoy me.

    • @tylerboothman4496
      @tylerboothman4496 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything would fall into Antarctica

    • @badvertised
      @badvertised 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Scientist A: "Can anybody think of an analogy for gravity as an effect of spacetime curvature that people can relate to?"
      Scientist B: "Um.... Oh! How about a ball rolling down a hill!"
      Scientist A: "No, that's awful. That's not even an analogy. That's just gravity."
      Scientist C: "Oooh, what about a marble rolling down a depression in a rubber sheet?"
      Scientist A: "BRILLIANT!"

    • @watcherofwatchers
      @watcherofwatchers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You people fail to understand that the ball-on-a-sheet analog is a basic gateway for the layman. Like most explanations, it lacks completeness and nuance, because that completeness and nuance would simply confuse those not already familiar with the rather complicated concepts involved.

  • @rickandrygel913
    @rickandrygel913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Your feet will age one second more than your head"
    According to Stargate SG-1 where there is more gravity less time happens.

    • @Amy-qc2qq
      @Amy-qc2qq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Doesn't less time = faster time? So your feet age faster?

    • @rickandrygel913
      @rickandrygel913 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Amy-qc2qq for one region to finish ten minutes in the same time it takes another region to finish nine minutes would mean the region with more time had faster time

    • @thefirstsin
      @thefirstsin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well the heavier the object you're standing on the more it bends Spacetime.,
      ex: if I moved to another planet triple the size of Earth or just triple the mass I would age slower in there and I would weight triple my original weight.

    • @fugslayernominee1397
      @fugslayernominee1397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Angular motion of the earth caused your head to move faster than your feet hence feet aged more.

    • @bftruly
      @bftruly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@fugslayernominee1397 Angular velocity is the same for head and feet. Linear velocity causes the head to move faster then the feet. You make a good point. I was thinking that the feet being closer to the center of the earth they would age slower due to gravity. Now I don't know which.

  • @markg3025
    @markg3025 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok the bit with the photon clock made perfect sense, I am so proud of myself 🚀

  • @davidkatuin4527
    @davidkatuin4527 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So close yet so far away. Lol I'm amazed at the oversight.

  • @reversatire7724
    @reversatire7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here's a question: Presumably the time dialation for the moving observer happens because of asymmetry, he is in an accelerated, ie non-inertial, frame of reference with respect to the "stationary" observer on earth. But let's say the ship accelerates to 0.8c over 9 months with 1g, the guy on earth is also experiencing the same accelleration due to gravity. Since there's no difference, where is the asymmetry and what causes the time for the moving observer to slow?

    • @luudest
      @luudest 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I asked that myself too! Looking forward to an explanation by someone.

  • @srankbichgomory69
    @srankbichgomory69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It's a mistake. The feet will be 1 second YOUNGER than your head, Matt!!!

    • @donotstalkme
      @donotstalkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your head is moving faster than your feet, it's angular speed is greater. Therefore time passes slower to your head when compared to your feet. That's why satellite clocks need to have their time adjusted or else they become out of sync with the clocks on the surface of the Earth.

    • @srankbichgomory69
      @srankbichgomory69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@donotstalkme While the last sentence is true, I disagree with the first two. Everywhere on the internet you can find that the closer to the ground you are, the slower the time will be. Thus, the Earth's core, according to some source, is 2.5 years younger than the Earth's surface.

    • @samgeurdi6351
      @samgeurdi6351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@srankbichgomory69 You’ve been misunderstanding certain passages when it comes down to space time and gravity. It’s all about from your perspective. Moving faster equal your frame of time is slowing down compared to everyone else’s. Ergo your head is younger. This experiment was done with twins and synchronised atomic watches, one stationed on earth one orbiting earth. Proving the point, higher speed equals to slower rate of time passage from your reference point.

    • @igtorque
      @igtorque 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@srankbichgomory69 The first part of your sentence is true. The last one is not: the Earth's core experiences less gravity than its crust. In fact, the gravity at the Earth's centre of gravity is zero; it grows linearly towards the surface, and then goes back again (but quadratically, not linearly) as you go to outer space. That's only an aproximation (Newtonian, spherical and non-rotating Earth, no Moon, etc.) but it's good enough.

    • @wayneyadams
      @wayneyadams 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@donotstalkme Not really, the time dilation due to the difference in speed is much less that the gravitational time dilation. The proof of this comes from GPS satellites that are in geosynchronous orbits (take 24 hours to complete one orbit so they appear stationary) over the Equator. They orbit at an altitude of 26,199 miles, at a speed of 6,876 MPH. The result is that their clocks run slower by 7 micro-seconds per day (7 millionths) due to their speed, but run 45.9 microseconds faster due to the gravitational time dilation on the surface which slows the clocks. The result is that the clocks run 38.9 micro seconds per day FASTER on the GPS satellites. The same is true, to a much lesser extent, for your head and feet.

  • @jarodatkinson5306
    @jarodatkinson5306 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was understanding everything right up to that part where you start talking...

  • @robertepstein5116
    @robertepstein5116 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the reply.