Does the Past Still Exist?

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  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion ปีที่แล้ว +8858

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

    • @brothermine2292
      @brothermine2292 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      It had to happen.

    • @sparkyfromel
      @sparkyfromel ปีที่แล้ว +395

      it's all in the past now

    • @FarfettilLejl
      @FarfettilLejl ปีที่แล้ว +525

      This video had always existed, you just needed to wait for it

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan ปีที่แล้ว +249

      I see what you did now.

    • @w3vjp568
      @w3vjp568 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      Dad?

  • @Gliese380
    @Gliese380 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +401

    The past haunts me every day, whether it still exists or not.

    • @stephenpalmer-zh9dq
      @stephenpalmer-zh9dq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      it is ALWAYS THERE

    • @margaretmorrissey2714
      @margaretmorrissey2714 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @stratocasterblue
      @stratocasterblue 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Your thoughts are not you

    • @SsuperNnova
      @SsuperNnova 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Felt

    • @stratocasterblue
      @stratocasterblue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

  • @jimihendrix4376
    @jimihendrix4376 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Not exactly sure about what you said but i did enjoy the way you said it.

    • @bvbxiong5791
      @bvbxiong5791 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

    • @jesusislord-ht1nj
      @jesusislord-ht1nj 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You have to be a Godless moron to think anything she said is worth more than falling asleep to.

    • @SailBoatJones
      @SailBoatJones 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lmao

  • @richclarke1523
    @richclarke1523 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

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

    • @user-tf9yy5uq9p
      @user-tf9yy5uq9p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

    • @valicourt
      @valicourt 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I have forgiven you

    • @morganmiller7777
      @morganmiller7777 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because the human brain is unbelievably flawed

  • @christinablacken3043
    @christinablacken3043 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +238

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

    • @darith770
      @darith770 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thanks Capt Obvious

    • @UNIRockLIVE
      @UNIRockLIVE 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Only if its honest

    • @UNIRockLIVE
      @UNIRockLIVE 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ​@@darith770poor trolly mad in the comments

    • @stuart23969
      @stuart23969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      History books can take me back

    • @the_kombinator
      @the_kombinator 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Memories too.

  • @painisvergina3693
    @painisvergina3693 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    This woman can literally talk about anything and my concentration will never break

    • @fidacuca
      @fidacuca หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Not ugly too.

  • @mikey1836
    @mikey1836 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

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

    • @ashokkumar-se5sl
      @ashokkumar-se5sl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      REAL LADY SPEAKING OR AI ..

    • @joelhubeny7554
      @joelhubeny7554 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @Flylikea
      @Flylikea หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's "now", and the information of "now".

    • @joelhubeny7554
      @joelhubeny7554 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @princeofallnegros4035
      @princeofallnegros4035 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Huh. U see dead people? 😮

  • @Juice-chan
    @Juice-chan หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @kurisutofusan
    @kurisutofusan ปีที่แล้ว +938

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

    • @whitetornado603
      @whitetornado603 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same here. perfect for learning

    • @sonyavincent7450
      @sonyavincent7450 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Absolutely love videos without background music.

    • @rupes96
      @rupes96 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree, ton of video looking for watch time and less explanation.

    • @mireazma
      @mireazma ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @MakiPavlidis
      @MakiPavlidis ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @SuperWingram
    @SuperWingram ปีที่แล้ว +447

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

    • @mokeish
      @mokeish ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Physicist humor =]

    • @davidjoseph7142
      @davidjoseph7142 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Does the past still exist? Depends on whether you remembered to hit save

    • @miashinbrot8388
      @miashinbrot8388 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @miashinbrot8388
      @miashinbrot8388 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @lnyitrai
      @lnyitrai ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love (and respect) her, but I think all the puns are horrible, borderlining disturbing.

  • @FCDHVleerstraat
    @FCDHVleerstraat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @idiot.driverspittsburgh.ed8811
      @idiot.driverspittsburgh.ed8811 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except that psychology shows that our brains slightly change memories each time access them….

  • @gdgers
    @gdgers 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Germans always speak such perfect English with beautiful accents .

  • @FailBucketFilms
    @FailBucketFilms ปีที่แล้ว +809

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

    • @phantasticmrphasma9874
      @phantasticmrphasma9874 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @phantasticmrphasma9874
      @phantasticmrphasma9874 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @mexreax4493
      @mexreax4493 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      We don't even know if that is true.

    • @bombomos
      @bombomos ปีที่แล้ว +93

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

    • @MuchCow9000
      @MuchCow9000 ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

  • @Chrisamusic1
    @Chrisamusic1 ปีที่แล้ว +137

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

    • @nautilus1872
      @nautilus1872 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @Chrisamusic1
      @Chrisamusic1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nautilus1872 Thank you.

    • @Jgriffin0808081
      @Jgriffin0808081 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I got a lot from your comment aswell, thank you

    • @Muirton66
      @Muirton66 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very thought provoking and a lovely comment.....good luck to you.

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @BokaDeus
    @BokaDeus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @kenmason6135
    @kenmason6135 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @edwardsp1916
    @edwardsp1916 ปีที่แล้ว +128

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

    • @deciduousrex1219
      @deciduousrex1219 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You hadn't disappeared yet.....

    • @DukeJon1969
      @DukeJon1969 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's uncanny

    • @struggleboy2927
      @struggleboy2927 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

    • @dylanmorrow263
      @dylanmorrow263 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This gonna blow your mind.. but when you read this you will be watching again 😱

    • @linuxbeastmaster9192
      @linuxbeastmaster9192 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @hraith
    @hraith ปีที่แล้ว +274

    As a working class layman, thank you for making this topic more accessible to me.

    • @Rockhoundingcolorado
      @Rockhoundingcolorado ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @Rockhoundingcolorado
      @Rockhoundingcolorado ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Dankenstein not a comedian.

    • @cdes68
      @cdes68 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Suddenly @Dankenstein is interested.

    • @arkeusalexander9054
      @arkeusalexander9054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Rockhoundingcolorado
      @Rockhoundingcolorado ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @user-nn1vk4rt8n
    @user-nn1vk4rt8n หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sabine good to see you back

  • @parinyachintanakarn4953
    @parinyachintanakarn4953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

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

  • @rb032682
    @rb032682 ปีที่แล้ว +43

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

    • @rb032682
      @rb032682 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cannabis tincture helps when dealing with my past.

    • @alexbauman4203
      @alexbauman4203 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Word

    • @petey611
      @petey611 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@rb032682 ya just get high, that's the answer 🙄

    • @joshdean5867
      @joshdean5867 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gay

    • @vf12497439
      @vf12497439 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @garytighe1822
    @garytighe1822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @bintangdomena
    @bintangdomena 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

    • @angelita1895
      @angelita1895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’re so brilliant 🥰❤

    • @angelita1895
      @angelita1895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The past is a series of events that cannot be replicated

    • @bintangdomena
      @bintangdomena 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @edbaiza7757
      @edbaiza7757 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @bintangdomena
      @bintangdomena 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @NeonVisual
    @NeonVisual ปีที่แล้ว +43

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

    • @gerogyzurkov2259
      @gerogyzurkov2259 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh didn't know u looked at this

    • @bootre9148
      @bootre9148 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where is the start of the stream and where is the end?

    • @NeonVisual
      @NeonVisual ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @themightybuzzard3088
      @themightybuzzard3088 ปีที่แล้ว

      So if I gain mass, I'll live longer? Sounds good to me.

    • @jpd8
      @jpd8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @stilltraceable6753
    @stilltraceable6753 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

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

  • @jsl151850b
    @jsl151850b 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    *As seen in the novel/made-for-TV-movie "The Langoliers" by Stephen King.*
    *"They ate up Time and it had a bad taste."*

  • @tobywestfall2970
    @tobywestfall2970 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @helensotiriadis
    @helensotiriadis ปีที่แล้ว +382

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

    • @johnbockelie3899
      @johnbockelie3899 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @SupportTheLittleGuy
      @SupportTheLittleGuy ปีที่แล้ว +18

      But what good is that if we can’t revisit these events

    • @tayjones8552
      @tayjones8552 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I always wonder what happens to today when it becomes yesterday!

    • @juliai3956
      @juliai3956 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @pedroroggla8129
      @pedroroggla8129 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @bustymcnutters801
    @bustymcnutters801 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

    • @bruzote
      @bruzote ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @monabear7287
      @monabear7287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Both statements are partially wrong. Watch some Carlo Rovelli.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @venuae
      @venuae 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @NeedMorePlebs
      @NeedMorePlebs 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @JamesDevine
    @JamesDevine หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “What the hell am I looking at??”
    “You’re looking at now, sir. Everything you’re seeing is happening now”

    • @jamesjeffers1217
      @jamesjeffers1217 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      One of the best parts of spaceballs

  • @NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111
    @NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When past memories surface, I push it away with a better thought and I keep at it. ❤

  • @nihal114
    @nihal114 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

  • @AICoffeeBreak
    @AICoffeeBreak ปีที่แล้ว +144

    When Sabine casually covers the question you have always been wondering about. 😁

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @wiseguy8828
      @wiseguy8828 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @peanutnutter1
      @peanutnutter1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @morganmiller7777
    @morganmiller7777 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the silliest thing ever. Sabine is just one of many who are misguided by the how their own existential conflicts are driving their beliefs and behaviors.

  • @Astronet2030
    @Astronet2030 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @allisonharwell7591
    @allisonharwell7591 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @taichihead42
      @taichihead42 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @blubbietweeduizend
      @blubbietweeduizend ปีที่แล้ว +9

      If I understand correctly, your book arrived at the same moment you bought the book.

  • @Quroxify
    @Quroxify ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @BostonSteve922
    @BostonSteve922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My past continues to haunt me to the brink of insanity

  • @BIGUS_PENUS
    @BIGUS_PENUS 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @1220b
    @1220b ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

    • @larrywright1589
      @larrywright1589 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @christian2i
      @christian2i ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @user-ys3ev5sh3w
      @user-ys3ev5sh3w ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @larrywright1589
      @larrywright1589 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @user-ys3ev5sh3w
      @user-ys3ev5sh3w ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @mengel419
    @mengel419 ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @dixonmooremusic
      @dixonmooremusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Heh! Timequakes!

    • @danovantuyl7911
      @danovantuyl7911 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kilgore Trout - "ting a ling"

    • @syndrome1965
      @syndrome1965 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Read the book, and, saw the film, both several times. I love that story...

  • @darthtorment
    @darthtorment 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm normally pretty skeptical but the subtle turn to the right shows it is indeed your good side

  • @user-iv6ft3jv2o
    @user-iv6ft3jv2o 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    3d Representation was amazing

  • @adrianamatlack532
    @adrianamatlack532 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great video Sabine. Thanks for the added perspectives on things.

  • @stichpy
    @stichpy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Luv the content, gunna buy her book, also yeah she so adorable

  • @thomasself8096
    @thomasself8096 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @tommyhawks856
    @tommyhawks856 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I very much love your method for explaining things to us. Great job, and keep up the excellent work!

  • @henkstel7175
    @henkstel7175 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the way you tell this and the subtle humor you put in between.

  • @rollinmc5427
    @rollinmc5427 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I am puzzled not by whether past still exists, but by how she eats without separating the upper and lower jaw

  • @ravinderpalsingh5182
    @ravinderpalsingh5182 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had some conversations along side with whom who never rests and keep blogging.Humanity is best form to reciprocate in gentle behavior

  • @kyelsavage6296
    @kyelsavage6296 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Perception is key. Maybe everything is happening simultaneously but we can only perceive in a linear fashion.😊

    • @helafed
      @helafed ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Do you have any literature about this theory? genuinely interested

    • @kyelsavage6296
      @kyelsavage6296 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @ab1858
      @ab1858 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If NOW some alien, on some planet a million light years away, fired a signal, did that event happen NOW or when the signal is perceived by earthlings?

  • @7th_CAV_Trooper
    @7th_CAV_Trooper ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The information earned a thumbs up. Sabine's sense of humor earned a subscription. Sharing this with my software dev buddies.

  • @Thomas-gk42
    @Thomas-gk42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

  • @steveg9088
    @steveg9088 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @clifftanton8385
      @clifftanton8385 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @desmoface
    @desmoface ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Whenever I think about the past, it just brings back all kinds of memories.

    • @timmyjohnston7247
      @timmyjohnston7247 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most of them are now classed as false.. so we are told.

    • @RainmanCT
      @RainmanCT ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i think of mammaries

    • @fu2588
      @fu2588 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @senor2930
      @senor2930 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Rockhoundingcolorado
      @Rockhoundingcolorado ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @aobdesigned3881
    @aobdesigned3881 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I could listen to Sabine talk about this topic, time and time again.

  • @CionnFE
    @CionnFE 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of my favourite of your videos. Fascinating and mind-blowing 😊

  • @mm-vg7dm
    @mm-vg7dm 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @bobwasilewski5768
    @bobwasilewski5768 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for this. Your presentation is quite enlightening. As well as entertaining. I love your style, your presentation.

  • @michaeljfigueroa
    @michaeljfigueroa ปีที่แล้ว +9

    thank you for simplifying these things. i almost feel like i vaguely see how these things fit toghether

  • @bon6461
    @bon6461 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @ez8308
    @ez8308 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Langoliers make sure that the past doesn't exist.

  • @tonycole3532
    @tonycole3532 ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

    • @Mr.Robert1
      @Mr.Robert1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @michaellongstreet4876
      @michaellongstreet4876 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @63mckenzie
    @63mckenzie ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @humansrants1694
      @humansrants1694 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Red Dwarf Time Slides?

    • @Aggiemcdee
      @Aggiemcdee ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @impeachy1518
      @impeachy1518 ปีที่แล้ว

      Badass.

    • @impeachy1518
      @impeachy1518 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Thorcat001
      @Thorcat001 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Butterfly effect ?

  • @MadeInArt13
    @MadeInArt13 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loving her detailed explanations.

  • @roboliver623
    @roboliver623 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My teenage son passed away from an AVM stroke recently and I'd like to believe that part of him still exists out there in space-time.

    • @QUBIQUBED
      @QUBIQUBED หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sorry for your loss.

  • @TylerSmith-sd2oc
    @TylerSmith-sd2oc ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Every moment exists as its own point time passing over like a film layer giving us the illusion of life

    • @GP-yc2it
      @GP-yc2it ปีที่แล้ว +7

      except there's no film to review.

    • @kushkushbabyy
      @kushkushbabyy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GP-yc2it different dimension

    • @TylerSmith-sd2oc
      @TylerSmith-sd2oc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GP-yc2it its not about the review. Its about the experience.

    • @kevinrice7635
      @kevinrice7635 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah what he said 👏

  • @mewlipaws8947
    @mewlipaws8947 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @gregorynixon2945
    @gregorynixon2945 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @grahamrich3368
    @grahamrich3368 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow!! Beautifully presented and explained video!! 🌟☀️🚀✨️

  • @seismictom
    @seismictom ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @edreusser4741
    @edreusser4741 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @mala24890
      @mala24890 ปีที่แล้ว

      556666666666

  • @aakla
    @aakla 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The universe was shattered into infinity. Every moment in our universe and the multiverse are individual pieces, the universe coming back together is what we experience as time.

  • @khigia984
    @khigia984 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sabine now and Sabine was about 16 minutes ago are the same she is still speaking without moving her jaws.

  • @sergifernandezmiranda1311
    @sergifernandezmiranda1311 ปีที่แล้ว +73

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

  • @robinkleinsteuber5217
    @robinkleinsteuber5217 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @residentfelon
      @residentfelon ปีที่แล้ว

      Why does she look like she wants to stab someone? Lol

    • @dr.christopherjohnson1406
      @dr.christopherjohnson1406 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @garytighe1822
    @garytighe1822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I changed my mind
    Dr hosesenfelder
    I love your channel

  • @ersia87
    @ersia87 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @chicchi1682
    @chicchi1682 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is a beautiful debrief of Einstein's theory of relativity. I love TH-cam and content creators this is amazing

  • @leahkangas2173
    @leahkangas2173 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've watched many videos on this topic. This is the first one that explained it in a way that I understood.

  • @Demmie-nl2qh
    @Demmie-nl2qh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you consider that not only are we moving around the sun, the sun is moving around the galaxy, then you realize we cannot 'go back in time' as it's all literally 'behind' us. Thanks for the deep reflection.

  • @user-mv9mg1pn4j
    @user-mv9mg1pn4j 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know this is a challenging view of the world and there's not enough philosophy on it. But I think this is ultimately something that helps us love the world and its inhabitants more, and despair less, not more.

  • @hartpa
    @hartpa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This video made me go back to an open evening I went to weeks ago with my children at a potential school which had a small farm on site.

  • @SimVikGo
    @SimVikGo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

  • @SOHOSYNERGY
    @SOHOSYNERGY 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    According to physics, Black Holes can and do warp space-time. So, were we able to determine the x,y,z where we need to enter and then amount of time we need before exiting we could effectively go back or forth in time. Quite a bit different to physically move in time, back and forth, than Observing ( t=d/v only works for linear time and only present)

  • @peterella1814
    @peterella1814 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Lambda420
    @Lambda420 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Saw this video come up on my feed and was immediately like “oh no don’t do this to me this late at night Sebine”. Great content as always.

  • @boutayebbadaoui9665
    @boutayebbadaoui9665 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I followed your Quantum Mechanics course in Brilliant, it was truly a gem :)

  • @Shadow-1949
    @Shadow-1949 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I find it easy to understand time as it relates to me but you mentioned space , I need further understanding of what you’re referring to .
    Is it distance ?

  • @edwardx4979
    @edwardx4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    At 3:35, that flash of the creepy monster was a nice touch! 😁

  • @GSPV33
    @GSPV33 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love your content. Thanks for making these for us.

  • @marmadukewinterbotham2599
    @marmadukewinterbotham2599 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I've always had a strange feeling that the past is 'somewhere over there'.

  • @bluefisshh2377
    @bluefisshh2377 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The movement of universe creates the time. If the movement is a combination of shrinking and expanding yes past may happen again after the future again and again.

  • @orion2250
    @orion2250 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    At least in imagery. Fly into the red shift far enough,fast enough
    Turn around and everything you flew past at ftl will now be approaching you..electeomagnetic spectrum wise..fly far and fast enough and you can see yourself at journeys beginning.
    Fly far enough and you can see the big bang

  • @MysteriousWorld.031
    @MysteriousWorld.031 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

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

    • @rebecca_stone
      @rebecca_stone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Or the view from everywhen...

  • @RyanMcLeanau
    @RyanMcLeanau ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

  • @raffaojeda
    @raffaojeda 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank u for the enlightening! Greetings from Mexico

  • @kazkz5331
    @kazkz5331 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "In time we can only move forward." This strikes me as wrong.

  • @jsmith1746
    @jsmith1746 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    So happy this came up in my feed. I have always been interested in math, physics, and engineering, but am nowhere near smart enough to have had any success studying it. So happy there are smart people who are able and willing to explain it to dummies like me!

    • @11dsw
      @11dsw ปีที่แล้ว +15

      If you’re interested in this, in any way, you’re not a dummy😀

    • @leejohnston2003
      @leejohnston2003 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Don't put yourself down

    • @victoriamassey9830
      @victoriamassey9830 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same

    • @mimidec
      @mimidec ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was always too scared to pursue science for higher studies tbh. Most people are. None of us are dumb, since we're all humans lol. You just have low self esteem, you're not dumb ♡

    • @usernameinsane3
      @usernameinsane3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the dummies are those with no desire to learn at all. you’re smarter than most without even knowing