According to general relativity, everything IS happening all at once (sort of). Regardless, to Einstein, next Wednesday at Pike's Peek was another point in space-time much like where you are, right here, right now, but also much like last Thursday in Dubai. All exist 'concurrently' within the fabric of space-time. Our inability to perceive more than three plus dimensions indicates that being able to do so would not, up to this point, make us significantly more 'fit'. Unless we are, of course, at the cusp of when having such perception may be essential.
@@targeted-individualdallas-9963 This the biggest load of garbage comment I've ever seen. Consciousness is a very specific and admittedly interesting phenomenon. It is not just some buzzword that can be slung around to sound deep.
Fun fact, the "view from nowhen" was believed by our ancestors to be the view that departed spirits had, which is why the ancients would ask the dead for advice and predictions about the future, since the greeks/romans believed them to be outside of time.
Hey there! If you have some time and you're interested in knowing some facts about the megalodon, please go and watch my vid about the megalodon.. I'm not forcing anyone though
At a security station I have a monitor displaying feeds from dozens of cameras. Each camera has a different lag when sending me information. I can see people moving through hallways from different angles at different times. I can hear a door open before I see it happen. I can see someone walking on the sidewalk before they have left the building. This perception can make you feel like a higher being.
@@SenhorAlien Well, he can see someone walking on the sidewalk (Cam.1) before they have left the building from the main hall through the entrance (Cam.2). It is not a power of the observer but a part of his reality :)
Physicist Carlo Rovelli has a super interesting paper called “Neither Presentism nor Eternalism” that’s worth checking out if you’re interested in this stuff. He explains that while traditional presentism doesn’t make any sense with our modern understanding of physics, the “block universe” of eternalism isn’t the only philosophical alternative. It really comes down to what you truly mean by “present” and the ontological significance you apply to the idea of “reference frames.” Regardless of how you like to conceptualize time, I find his discussion to be very dope indeed 😎
I'm really grateful for videos like this because I used to talk about space time, and the illusions of reality in 7th grade, and I'd lose friends because I scared and confused them. I've found my people, and it feels nice.💙
@@NonDelusional74611 Time is relative, time is equivalent to now, now is perspective, ergo perspective is *edit:somewhat* relative. When alone, your mind has the capability to self isolate and focus on imaginary threats (stress) when not dealing with real threats (busy bodied, fast moving environments). Try to be mindful of your breathing when alone as a way to set a pace and rhythm of brain and body. Thats how i get by with it.
Im not enchanted by physics it ruins all the friggin mystery. The world use to be magical snd now there is a boring explanation for everything. I would put all phycists under house arrest and tske away their phones and computers and just let thrm watch basic cable. Fight me nerd
@@Sorter_123 u want me to to try harder to understand the boring explanations to everday things? when i can turn to more exciting explanations that involves magic, follow the stars to see the future. And go searching forcancient aliens instead of looking under rocks to find a fossil of a 4 billion year old single cell orgasm. Single orgasms boring. Sorry i prefer my orgasms to be multicellular orgasms within multicellular orgasms
Now is what is in between what is about to happen and what just happened. @ 6:40 I'm not sure if your model is right. You can not add speed to light but the light is moving with the train with means it moving faster than the speed of light to . The right model the center of propagation of the light should stay where the guy on the station is not move along with the train. This means that both observers would see the light reaching the back of the train first.
The now is actually unified . Its not about what we see from our perspective nor about the time that we receive and filter the informations inside out brains .. Its about what is actually happening in the real world outside our little box of realization
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?" tennessee williams
@@jeanjacquesrousseau1955 But when it's FORGOTTEN, it cannot be memory anymore, can it? The point is: we experience, each moment, a lot more than we will remember half year since now. We experience a lot of life that does not become memory, it simply passes by, forgotten. That's not even touching Alzheimer... =)
"that all moments are equally real and there's nothing special about the present moment except that you're experiencing it right now." I used to think of the world like that as a child, that everything is kept in it's own little place in history and once it happens it stays there, and isnt lost so the only thing that matters is that it existed once. Brings a lot of comfort
That's exactly my thought during intro. I even checked description area for any such reference. Nope, nothing. I gave you a thumbs-up. Sp.Balls was 30 years ago, but is not forgotten.
@@jakesimm5889 ya, and they're usually in movies that reference another movie. I think if directors know each other, then it's an homage, but if an amateur takes dialogue from a movie without saying, "with easter egg" in the title is theft.
So we all live in the "now" the presence, but if we talk about the "now" we always talk about either the past or the future. So the "now" you live in is always, but the "now" we use to communicate is never.
The flash on the train example doesn't work. The animation was even changed for each perspective. It was said that from the camera man's perspective the light reaches each end simultaneously, but that is not true, because the train is moving forward, so it would hit the rear first, even from his perspective. So his and the person on the ground would both agree with their perspectives. The animation was changed to reflect this when showing the observer on the ground.
Can you be a teacher like this and still make your students grasp in-depth knowledge about what you're trying to teach? RUclips videos are surface-level scratchers at best.
That intro made me feel like I'm explaining when "tomorrow" is to my 4 year old. I never realized how hard time really is to understand, and do I even understand it?
@@austenhead5303 it's easy dude just teach them some hyperbolic trigonometry, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and variational calculus and then boom they're ready to learn GR ans SR
Man, i wish the school taught me about Einstein's Relativity this way. Do I understand this completely? No. I still need time to process the information. But it's a lot understandable than school's lesson. And more importantly, this is way more interesting. Interest makes motivation. That's what school often forgets.
19:07 I never really thought about it. It is indeed very trippy. I felt my eyes were totally not moving, but the recording i took with my phone showed me they were moving.
I know a few of these things previously (like that light travels faster than sound) but it's interesting hearing all the brain science about how the mind is constructing now based on a lot of dissonant and out of sync inputs. Fun video! This was way better than I expected it to be!
Love the Space Balls reference 😂 "Now" is entirely semantics. It's a concept to which we've assigned meaning. The concepts of the timing of "now" match up in the train example, just perceptions of each person are different. Perceptions change relativity. The absolute elsewhen still exists, and still exists now, it's only our perception that is limited. Just because we can't see beyond the horizon, doesn't mean that the people on the other side of the globe don't exist. To say that we have to be able to see/perceive something to know about it is a disservice that limits knowledge and understanding. That's why I find theoretical physics so fascinating
You do a better job of explaining it than I do. I often use this example: The light of the sun takes roughly 8 minutes to reach you on earth. Common knowledge to many. If the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to hit your eyeballs, how long does the light from the TV take? It's only a fraction, but it's not NOW. Did you just experience seeing that on TV? Or was it in the past and you're only now experiencing it? Blows most people's minds.
finally someone talks about the questions my autism gave me when I was 5, just 5 year old me thinking 'but when we say now, when is that now. Technically that 'now' has already passed'
That flash of light at 11:05 does create a sphere, Joe, but after 1 second, it's expanded 1 light-second in all directions... so it's *two* light-seconds across.
I suffer from strabismus (a vision disorder that keeps both my eyes from focusing on what I'm trying to look at simultaneously). When i bring my face really close to a mirror and close one of my eyes using a finger, i actually consciously notice that instant of darkness when the eye that's still open is forced to focus. It's nice to hear that biological phenomenon explained in this video. Thank you to the people that work on this channel.
I agree with you that the front light will reach the one on the train faster.. but the difference between the two would be in nanoseconds which a human-being cannot ever realize it, so he will also see that they both happened simultaneously
It doesn't though, as he specifically states that the experience of now produced by the brain is about combining many things in the very recent past that are often not in perfect sync. The way he earlier attributed it to "the future" could be considered as misleading considering the above paragraph.
Consider also: There is a smallest possible distance…the Plank length and light has the fastest speed at which information can traverse it. This means there is a smallest interval of time, about 10e x -43s. Too small for us to measure, but nevertheless this implies at least our reality is not a smooth continuum. Everything exists only for this briefest moment, then exists again, then again ad infinitum, with the tiniest of adjustments to everything that moves or ages. Each existence is like a frame on a film strip, we just can’t see the judders.
Now is then and then is now? When did I make this comment? Now? Then? What is now? This is now, but also then My brain won't work anymorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre
Hey there! If you have some time and you're interested in knowing some facts about the megalodon, please go and watch my vid about the megalodon.. I'm not forcing anyone though
I see the future in my dreams. Literally I dream of the "now" while it is still "then". Eventually the "thens" I dreamed of become my experiences in the "now". My experiences with dreaming of the future make the concept of eternalism presented in this video easily understandable and observable.
I love that physics just becomes philosophy when it gets deeper
Which blows my mind why philosophy is classified as an art and not a science...(it's actually both, I believe).
@@JaysonT1 my physics teacher disagrees and looks down upon your opinion
Just more proof that EVERYTHING is connected
@@lucasliam8238 I know. Most physics teachers will.
@@lucasliam8238 Here is something else to look into, "mathematical paradoxes".
"Time is what prevents everything from happening all at once." - Richard Feynman
Consciousness can understand all existence simultaneously. However such notions would break most let alone attempting such.
@@targeted-individualdallas-9963 worthless comment using up valuable spacetime
According to general relativity, everything IS happening all at once (sort of). Regardless, to Einstein, next Wednesday at Pike's Peek was another point in space-time much like where you are, right here, right now, but also much like last Thursday in Dubai. All exist 'concurrently' within the fabric of space-time. Our inability to perceive more than three plus dimensions indicates that being able to do so would not, up to this point, make us significantly more 'fit'. Unless we are, of course, at the cusp of when having such perception may be essential.
@@targeted-individualdallas-9963 This the biggest load of garbage comment I've ever seen. Consciousness is a very specific and admittedly interesting phenomenon. It is not just some buzzword that can be slung around to sound deep.
@@targeted-individualdallas-9963 &&&&&77
Starting with a Spaceballs reference will always win me over.
Frankly I’d have been surprised if he didn’t start with that gag.
Thank you for commenting this to spread the good word
So good
Done deal:)
what is Spaceballs
Fun fact, the "view from nowhen" was believed by our ancestors to be the view that departed spirits had, which is why the ancients would ask the dead for advice and predictions about the future, since the greeks/romans believed them to be outside of time.
That's WILD! That fact is a mixture of two of my favorite things... spacetime philosophy, and mythology! :D
That would mean they could ask for advice from themselves, as they also become spirits at some point in time.
When I saw the title, Spaceballs instantly came to mind... thanks for delivering on that thought!
Hey there! If you have some time and you're interested in knowing some facts about the megalodon, please go and watch my vid about the megalodon.. I'm not forcing anyone though
Yo how'd you manage to comment 2 days ago? Who are you? When is your now?
*Random fact: If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.*
*-Infinite Information*
Damn! How I wanna know too
I was just wondering when someone would mention Spaceballs.
Time is an illusion that helps things make sense~
So we are always living in the present tense
@@VoxTenebrae now doesn’t exist, we are always either living in the future, or the past
Will happen, happening, happened
Time is an illusion and so is pants
@@AspienPadda will happen again and again
sorry but most people wont get it
next time in an argument I say: "Well I guess you're right in your own reference frame."
Thats stupid
@@iaw7406 nah, it's intellectual.
@@iaw7406 Its stupid in your reference frame.
@@iaw7406 destroyed
@@TheSpartan3669 ur mums a reference frame
For the first time in my life I was somewhat able to comprehend general relativity!!
It's easy to understand what it is, it's hard to know how to use it 🤣
Doubt it.
"No, no, no. Go past this. Pass this part. In fact, never play this again." - Dark Helmet
ruclips.net/video/iai2nlEkPSI/видео.html
@@balancedeuphoria7353 I hate you
No sir, I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!
1-800- d r u i d i a.
Thats the password an idiot would have on his luggage!
That spaceballs reference simply makes this video a 10/10.
A, thanks. Was hoping to find where I had heard that before.
@@Zpajro no problem.
That’s one of my favorite jokes from that movie.
@@PigRipperLAW I absolutely love Spaceballs! That entire movie is awesome!
spaceballs was actually the first thing i thought about after reading the title
At a security station I have a monitor displaying feeds from dozens of cameras. Each camera has a different lag when sending me information. I can see people moving through hallways from different angles at different times. I can hear a door open before I see it happen. I can see someone walking on the sidewalk before they have left the building. This perception can make you feel like a higher being.
Wow that's trippy!
As Winston said to Ray, "...when someone asks you if you're a god, say yes!" ;-)
Excuse me, you see someone walking on the sidewalk before they have left the building, you say? ... Not very good at hiding your powers, huh.
Interesting point of view
@@SenhorAlien Well, he can see someone walking on the sidewalk (Cam.1) before they have left the building from the main hall through the entrance (Cam.2). It is not a power of the observer but a part of his reality :)
Physicist Carlo Rovelli has a super interesting paper called “Neither Presentism nor Eternalism” that’s worth checking out if you’re interested in this stuff. He explains that while traditional presentism doesn’t make any sense with our modern understanding of physics, the “block universe” of eternalism isn’t the only philosophical alternative. It really comes down to what you truly mean by “present” and the ontological significance you apply to the idea of “reference frames.” Regardless of how you like to conceptualize time, I find his discussion to be very dope indeed 😎
Thanks!
“Now” doesn’t even feel like a word anymore
😭😭😭
Semantic saturation. Take any word, ANY word, and repeat it to yourself a few dozen times. It will stop making sense.
@@CarFreeSegnitz **does the same w "semantic"**
@@CarFreeSegnitz satiation* yes I'm a nerd
You woN an award for that lol
Ah the Spaceballs reference in the beginning of the video was just pure art.
Looks like Joe has been talking to Vsause
My mind is still stuck on the fact that we don't know what the one way speed of light is.
Vsauce not Vsause
Beardless Michael still visits me in my nightmares sometimes
But hopefully we can agree on one thing: Tacos are delicious.
And veritasium
I'm really grateful for videos like this because I used to talk about space time, and the illusions of reality in 7th grade, and I'd lose friends because I scared and confused them. I've found my people, and it feels nice.💙
Welcome!😁
Do you know what that is?
Found people?? In person?? Where??? 🥺
Omg I still do that and I'm 24 people think I'm insufferable 😂😭
it's really interesting and talking about it feels like having a superpower sometimes 😆🤣
"The "Now" you're experiencing is yours and yours alone."
That felt oddly empowering.
Yeah but I think I broke my now that I’m experiencing alone. Which is the opposite of empowering.
@@NonDelusional74611 Time is relative, time is equivalent to now, now is perspective, ergo perspective is *edit:somewhat* relative. When alone, your mind has the capability to self isolate and focus on imaginary threats (stress) when not dealing with real threats (busy bodied, fast moving environments). Try to be mindful of your breathing when alone as a way to set a pace and rhythm of brain and body. Thats how i get by with it.
@@NonDelusional74611 74611
@@nichmeniana7015 stop tryna be smart unless you are a relativity specialist.
@@Njadmessi well i do have a degree in applied physics, do you?
Love the Spaceballs, Back to the Future, and The Good Place references!!
Though I feel like that Space Balls bit was long enough that it should be credited.
what was the good place reference?
@@moriohsfreshest 8:32 over the globe
@@tiller6750 ohh
Sorry havent watched it in a while
You gotta watch The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension !!! More gooder than back to the future !
This is honestly my favorite one so far. Space/time is so interesting
Im not enchanted by physics it ruins all the friggin mystery. The world use to be magical snd now there is a boring explanation for everything. I would put all phycists under house arrest and tske away their phones and computers and just let thrm watch basic cable. Fight me nerd
@@Mynipplesmychoice try harder to understand .
@@Sorter_123 u want me to to try harder to understand the boring explanations to everday things? when i can turn to more exciting explanations that involves magic, follow the stars to see the future. And go searching forcancient aliens instead of looking under rocks to find a fossil of a 4 billion year old single cell orgasm. Single orgasms boring. Sorry i prefer my orgasms to be multicellular orgasms within multicellular orgasms
@@Mynipplesmychoice orgasm under a rock !!!!
What kind of detergents are you addicted to drink ?
@@Sorter_123 there are orgasm fossils in rocks everywhere and they’re boring. But ancient aliens are so much cooler then orgasms fossils
Now is what is in between what is about to happen and what just happened.
@ 6:40 I'm not sure if your model is right. You can not add speed to light but the light is moving with the train with means it moving faster than the speed of light to . The right model the center of propagation of the light should stay where the guy on the station is not move along with the train.
This means that both observers would see the light reaching the back of the train first.
The universe isn't stranger than we imagine. It's stranger than we can imagine.
@@fhajji Fun to contemplate.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." - Ford Prefect
I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
For the love of all that is Holy, Loved the "Spaceball" reference.
The now is actually unified
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Its not about what we see from our perspective nor about the time that we receive and filter the informations inside out brains
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Its about what is actually happening in the real world outside our little box of realization
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"
tennessee williams
That is why Last Thursdayism is my church of choice :^)
It doesn’t go by you, you ride the now
Life is not all memory, because I'm leaving this comment right now, but I will not remember leaving it 7 months from now...
@@lorigulfnoldor2162 and it is memory now. It immediately was except the exact moment you wrote it.
@@jeanjacquesrousseau1955 But when it's FORGOTTEN, it cannot be memory anymore, can it? The point is: we experience, each moment, a lot more than we will remember half year since now. We experience a lot of life that does not become memory, it simply passes by, forgotten. That's not even touching Alzheimer... =)
The second I saw the title, my brain loaded the Spaceballs skit. Well done!
Joe: How did you get so fit?
Joe: I did One Pushup everytime I said "Now"
I made it into a shdrinking game... 'Hic'
I am now, 2 years later than your upload now. Glad RUclips recommended me an older video, this was perfect in all ways, thank you
"that all moments are equally real and there's nothing special about the present moment except that you're experiencing it right now." I used to think of the world like that as a child, that everything is kept in it's own little place in history and once it happens it stays there, and isnt lost so the only thing that matters is that it existed once. Brings a lot of comfort
"But what if I was on Proxima B"
That had some serious VSauce energy
Lol
If I was in the room with you, we'd agree on the same now...
OR WOULD WE? 👁 👄👁
*intense & mysterious music starts playing*
Proxima B? You’ve never been?
Then: Vsauce.
Now: It's okay to be smart.
I was also going to comment that Vsause did this ten years ago. "Hi Vsause, michael here, is it ok to be smart?"
Lol
So we need only one video about it?
Michael here!
when
The brain automatically synchronising discrepancies up to 100 metres is absolutely amazing! I had no idea it was doing that!
I can't believe they didn't give props to Spaceballs, the movie. They practically said it verbatim.
That's exactly my thought during intro. I even checked description area for any such reference. Nope, nothing.
I gave you a thumbs-up.
Sp.Balls was 30 years ago, but is not forgotten.
my bet would be the movie being too mature for their target audience. but yea, more of a wink would have been nice
It's called a reference. Or an Easter egg. It's for those that get it without having to explain.
@@jakesimm5889 ya, and they're usually in movies that reference another movie. I think if directors know each other, then it's an homage, but if an amateur takes dialogue from a movie without saying, "with easter egg" in the title is theft.
Went to the comments to find this.
So we all live in the "now" the presence, but if we talk about the "now" we always talk about either the past or the future. So the "now" you live in is always, but the "now" we use to communicate is never.
Thanks for that summation. I can now move on to the next video in my playlist.
Joe: hey smart people!
Me: whoa, slow down there Bucko
Did you just say "bucko" lol?!
XD
Pretty cool... kudos to all this team... the work in the script and visuals are stunning and awe inspiring.
Me:**trying to sleep at 2am**
RUclips: i bet you want to know when is now?
Me: hell yeah!
Literally me right now lol (it’s 1:32 am) 😂
It's 1:20 am here "now" 😂
HAHSHAHAHA
All I know is now is time for you to sleep
Literally same
Such high production quality, cant imagine the amount of effort it took. One of your best yet! Thanks!
Yet? what is yet? why is yet? when is yet?
The sheer amount of knowledge packed and delivered in such a masterful way is amazing. Well done and thanks for making it!
The flash on the train example doesn't work. The animation was even changed for each perspective. It was said that from the camera man's perspective the light reaches each end simultaneously, but that is not true, because the train is moving forward, so it would hit the rear first, even from his perspective. So his and the person on the ground would both agree with their perspectives. The animation was changed to reflect this when showing the observer on the ground.
_If school explained things like this, it would be much more enjoyable._
And much harder to graduate.
Why every school is same at everyone's now
Can you be a teacher like this and still make your students grasp in-depth knowledge about what you're trying to teach?
RUclips videos are surface-level scratchers at best.
You commented on the new LIMC vid too!
Definitely it will be enjoyable to see kids go mad
“So when is now?”
“You just missed it.”
"When?!"
Just now!
@@THall-vi8cp When will then be now?
Soon.
Spaceballs was such a riot!
and I would've said "And so did you!" :)
That intro made me feel like I'm explaining when "tomorrow" is to my 4 year old. I never realized how hard time really is to understand, and do I even understand it?
The intro is from the movie Spaceballs.
You could tell your 4 year old it's after it gets dark then light again.
Do NOT throw relativity at a 4-y-o. Keep it simple.
@@austenhead5303 it's easy dude just teach them some hyperbolic trigonometry, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and variational calculus and then boom they're ready to learn GR ans SR
OOF
Watching this, it felt illegal for me to rewind or skip forward the video but pausing it just felt so right. I hope I'm not the only one on this.
“How Soon is Now” by the Smiths got me thinking about this question decades ago. Thanks for the video.
Same.
Man, i wish the school taught me about Einstein's Relativity this way.
Do I understand this completely? No. I still need time to process the information. But it's a lot understandable than school's lesson. And more importantly, this is way more interesting.
Interest makes motivation. That's what school often forgets.
Well, that depends on if you’re South African or not. There’s now, just now and now-now which all mean different things!
Spotted the Saffer :-)
I never think about how much I say now-now 😅
What do they mean?
Eish now now 😂
Now-now has evolved (or devolved) into nuh-now in my circles. 😂🇿🇦
I love how the cold open was a reference to Spaceballs.
19:07 I never really thought about it. It is indeed very trippy. I felt my eyes were totally not moving, but the recording i took with my phone showed me they were moving.
@Furll yeah, me too. So what? That's how RUclips is working nowadays. Ad the begginning, end, random points in the middle
"HEY Vsauce! Michael here. But where is, HERE? Or WHEN is here? *vsauce music drops*"
I think Vsauce has made a video about same subject as the video above...(title: You live in the past) and it was 9 years ago...
“But...what if I was on proxima b?” Game me mad vsauce vibes 1:44
Who read the comment in Micheals voice?
@@It_is_Okay_to_be_Sad is it the time illusions one? That one just came out a few weeks ago.
Vsauce was their research material...again.
"If you're feeling confused now......
don't worry: it get's weirder!!"
It always does...
I don't really worry.....only now and then ....
When does it get weirder? Is it now?
Were are You? Here - What is Important? The Present Moment - Were is Your Power? In the Now -and so it is - Blessings.
I know a few of these things previously (like that light travels faster than sound) but it's interesting hearing all the brain science about how the mind is constructing now based on a lot of dissonant and out of sync inputs. Fun video! This was way better than I expected it to be!
The space balls reference at the start was amazing
This is one of the coolest concepts I've ever heard. So cool knowing that the brain is correcting for lag the way it does.
Truly the best explanation of this I’ve heard.
I love the Spaceballs opening segment that was great.
Is there a now?
“Yes! Or is it”?
- Vsauce
Is there a now?
"Yes! Or is?"
- Queen Oona
Damn... the vsauce music played in my head after reading it 😄
@@rijin9460 HAHAHAHA SAME
I think we’re all missing the fact that this man is a fan of “ Space Balls”
No fans of Spaceballs missed that tho
"WHO?!"
@@Yora21 yogurt
@@evilovesperry Yogurt? I *hate* Yogurt! Even with strawberries.
No, we didn't
That ring/flashing light visual experiment is seriously trippy. Dang.
"I'm Barf - half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend." 😂😂😂
I'm so glad I wasn't the only person that caught the reference in the beginning
@@Saaciaysan Me too - it's a movie of my childhood
BARFOLAMEW
Princess Vespa: What's your name?
Barf: Barf
Dot Matrix: Not in here, Mister. This is a Mercedes.
@@johntracy72 "You idiots!! You've captured their stunt doubles!!" 😂😂😂
Love the Space Balls reference 😂
"Now" is entirely semantics. It's a concept to which we've assigned meaning. The concepts of the timing of "now" match up in the train example, just perceptions of each person are different. Perceptions change relativity.
The absolute elsewhen still exists, and still exists now, it's only our perception that is limited. Just because we can't see beyond the horizon, doesn't mean that the people on the other side of the globe don't exist. To say that we have to be able to see/perceive something to know about it is a disservice that limits knowledge and understanding. That's why I find theoretical physics so fascinating
I should watch that movie, it seems like a hilarious satire
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut
You do a better job of explaining it than I do.
I often use this example:
The light of the sun takes roughly 8 minutes to reach you on earth. Common knowledge to many.
If the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to hit your eyeballs, how long does the light from the TV take? It's only a fraction, but it's not NOW. Did you just experience seeing that on TV? Or was it in the past and you're only now experiencing it?
Blows most people's minds.
0:20 Takes some serious space-balls to try to steal this bit
If we go by most Eastern philosophies, the only thing that ever really exists is "now"!
*Random fact: If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.*
*-Infinite Information*
@@infiniteinformation2689 bot.
@@infiniteinformation2689 not really
Also most eastern philosophies: respect authorities.
@Danito FG In the end, there is little difference - physics and logic both originate from philosophy
“Why are you late to work?”
Recites 19:39
“Your brain is not a clock that tracks time” as someone with ADHD I can’t agree more
That quote describes perfectly my ADD
You don't have ADHD
@@d_all_in not really, only ADD, no hyperactivity
finally someone talks about the questions my autism gave me when I was 5, just 5 year old me thinking 'but when we say now, when is that now. Technically that 'now' has already passed'
Literally exactly the same for me like EXACLTY my case
Literally me at 4/5 my mom thought I was so weird 😂😂😂😂
I love that spaceballs reference at the start
That flash of light at 11:05 does create a sphere, Joe, but after 1 second, it's expanded 1 light-second in all directions... so it's *two* light-seconds across.
I was looking for this comment thanks
Watched the whole thing with one eye closed on my bed. And my perception on the illustrations was actually near perfect.
"All moments in time are real. But some are more real" - Animal farm
All whens are now, but some are more now
0:28 omg the spaceballs reference 😂😂
That opening. My sides.
Great use of a spaceballs reference.
uff, glad I'm not the only one old enough to have appreciated that
That opening Space Balls bit was fantastic
A certain Bill Wurtz once said:
A long time ago, (actually never), and also now, nothing is nowhere. When? Never. Makes sense right? 😁
Remember, when you are going nowhere, you are now here!
The sun is a deadly lazer.
Since I'm probably one of the world's biggest procrastinators, now, for me takes weeks and months!
RUclips is the best "single actor taking with himself" formation school ever. That bit was perfect.
0:36 love the Spaceballs reference.🤣
"Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold."
Seems like Bill Cipher was not kidding afterall....😂
He wouldn't lie for something like that.
i don't need drugs to get high, i watch video's like this
Joe just watched Vsauce and Veritasium and decided he wanted to sum up all their concepts into his own video.
It's ok to be Vsaucasium
@@TheNasaDude *Vsaucium
I suffer from strabismus (a vision disorder that keeps both my eyes from focusing on what I'm trying to look at simultaneously). When i bring my face really close to a mirror and close one of my eyes using a finger, i actually consciously notice that instant of darkness when the eye that's still open is forced to focus. It's nice to hear that biological phenomenon explained in this video. Thank you to the people that work on this channel.
Why would you use a word and then define it? Use one or the other. You're not some damned school teacher.
8:30 jeremy bearimy caught me by surprise
Thats amazing.
Ah love it!
0:20 me regretting not studying for exams enough and then giving the tests😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Rip
Now you're talking! Greatest explanation I've 'ever' heard about the non-existence of "now" and our VERY limited perception capabilities
I agree with you that the front light will reach the one on the train faster.. but the difference between the two would be in nanoseconds which a human-being cannot ever realize it, so he will also see that they both happened simultaneously
I think the revelation that the mind is using future information to interpret data is mind-blowing and deserves its own episode.
@@fhajji Really? Do tell more, please.
It doesn't though, as he specifically states that the experience of now produced by the brain is about combining many things in the very recent past that are often not in perfect sync.
The way he earlier attributed it to "the future" could be considered as misleading considering the above paragraph.
Teacher: you were supposed to submit the project....now
Me : 1:00
This is that shiii I love
Consider also: There is a smallest possible distance…the Plank length and light has the fastest speed at which information can traverse it. This means there is a smallest interval of time, about 10e x -43s. Too small for us to measure, but nevertheless this implies at least our reality is not a smooth continuum. Everything exists only for this briefest moment, then exists again, then again ad infinitum, with the tiniest of adjustments to everything that moves or ages. Each existence is like a frame on a film strip, we just can’t see the judders.
"How soon is now?"
"When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?"
I’ve already waited too long, and all my hope is gone.
@@mhyzon1 Hope only exists in the future and can't ever be now, so be now.
It just happen now, now that was the past so it was a was.
Now is then and then is now? When did I make this comment? Now? Then? What is now? This is now, but also then
My brain won't work anymorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre
Dude the spaceballs reference is everything I hoped for in this video! Everything else is just icing on the cake 🙂
When you think of "now" you're already thinking of the past because the event already happened 😮
Love the space balls reference
The beginning felt like a spaceballs scene.
That’s because it was
Down to the conclusion when he waves his hand marveling at the screen
@@ethanbellner5129 practically word for word
I LOVE when Joe posts, he is literally my childhood and his videos are always entertaining
Hey there! If you have some time and you're interested in knowing some facts about the megalodon, please go and watch my vid about the megalodon.. I'm not forcing anyone though
*Random fact: If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.*
*-Infinite Information*
How could someone literally be your childhood?
I just understood something extraordinary.
I see the future in my dreams. Literally I dream of the "now" while it is still "then". Eventually the "thens" I dreamed of become my experiences in the "now". My experiences with dreaming of the future make the concept of eternalism presented in this video easily understandable and observable.