Why is Time so Hard to Understand? - Ask a Spaceman!

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What makes time so hard to understand? Why is it so different from the spatial dimensions? Is time in any way connected to that most difficult of concepts, entropy? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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  • @charley7347
    @charley73473 жыл бұрын

    i go through stages of fully understanding how to time travel, and every time i try and explain it to someone my mind spins out, i get lost. and then occasionally with enough day dreaming i understand it again....

  • @garyc1384

    @garyc1384

    Жыл бұрын

    Self deception is a free narcotic, but everything has a price

  • @ebrensi
    @ebrensi4 жыл бұрын

    I'm not a physicist but I have a math background and understand a bit about dimensions. I fancy that time does in fact have multiple dimensions; a "left", "right", etc, in addition to forward and backwards. If time were one dimensional, that would mean there is only one possible past and one possible future, which precludes any notion of randomness or free choice. I propose that there are an infinite number of possible futures at any given moment, and what we experience as time passing is our trajectory over multiple dimensions of time. Some future events are more likely than others. A massive object curves space, but also curves time in the sense that the event of a collision with that object is more likely as the trajectory through possible futures is curved towards that event. Some events are so massive as to be inevitable. I wish I were able to describe this idea mathematically, and I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of it. For those of you who know about such things, does this theory already exist? If so, what is it called?

  • @RichardT2112
    @RichardT21125 жыл бұрын

    I don’t have the time for this ....

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nobody does!

  • @PalimpsestProd
    @PalimpsestProd5 жыл бұрын

    The only reason you think time is weird is that you think time is a thing on it's own. Time is nothing more than the ratio of the change in one physical system compared to another physical system. How many swings of the pendulum before the sun rises again, how many pulses of a cesium atom between the beats of your heart, etc. You can't "measure time" without physical systems because without physical things there is no "concept of time". The most significant factor in the idea of time is the physical process of your memory.

  • @KafshakTashtak

    @KafshakTashtak

    5 жыл бұрын

    I have to add that in order to count time, you need a repetitive process (eg. motion of the planet that causes day/night) otherwise it would look like white noise on TV.

  • @chrisyother4870
    @chrisyother4870 Жыл бұрын

    It's probably no coincidence I turned 50 over Labor Day and my topic of focus to study this year is time. All the videos and articles I have read seem to reduce it to an almost logical/philosophical concept- even when I have heard lectures by physicists. You helped me understand it better when viewing it as a parameter. I didnt realize the nuances between micro and macro models and that theoretically they can move back and forth in time. I have always found it interesting that it seems like I have met thousands of people in my life who always talk about time passing so fast as we age. Of course, now I am experiencing it and find it interesting that I am making plans for events that will come to pass in a decade, like it is something that will happen in a few months or so. I have always wondered if there is some kind of other force at work here which makes time actually, rather than seemingly, go faster for us as we age. Thanks for the great video!

  • @elizabethorman86
    @elizabethorman865 жыл бұрын

    Really great explanation. I'd never thought of the difference between the way time operates (if that's the right word) on microscopic and macroscopic levels and you explain it perfectly. It's difficult to imagine time going sideways isn't it? I love your channel!

  • @chrissscottt
    @chrissscottt5 жыл бұрын

    I think maybe the flow of time is connected to the description of the state of particles being not just their current state but also their interwoven history of interactions with other particles which can't be undone because their effect on other particles will always persist unless the two particles somehow meet again in a perfect opposite of their previous interaction.

  • @lawrenceb.3349
    @lawrenceb.3349 Жыл бұрын

    Sir Roger Penrose has a more satisfying approach to time, relating mass to frequency via E = mc^2 = hf. Consider also that massless particles do not experience time. I think this is a key insight, upon which, btw, rests his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology.

  • @kingkrushkiller
    @kingkrushkiller4 жыл бұрын

    For gods sake take a wet rag to that chalk board 🤣

  • @KaiHenningsen
    @KaiHenningsen5 жыл бұрын

    I think entropy is necessarily an effect, not a cause, of the arrow of time. IF we have a system evolving along the arrow of time, THEN we can derive entropy as an emergent property. But entropy pretty much doesn't exist on the quantum level, so how can it possibly explain the arrow of time? That's similar to people trying to explain biological evolution as a process that tries to construct homo sapiens - it's backwards. I don't think there can be an answer that is not already present at the quantum level. Without that, there's no reason why entropy should have the same direction everywhere, for example. Now, I can certainly believe that perhaps time is, itself, an emergent property - but that doesn't answer the question what it emerges from. I've heard of ideas how to derive space as an emergent property, which sounded at least plausible (derive space from the metric, instead of the metric from space), but as yet that doesn't seem to do anything for time/causality (some people are already calling c the speed of causality). So far, even at the quantum level, time is a parameter.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'll describe it more fully in my next video!

  • @peterhalloran291

    @peterhalloran291

    5 жыл бұрын

    time could just emerge from the interactions of all the particles surrounding you in space. This could also explain relativity because how fast the surrounding space changes to a new state is relative to you. Animal brains like ours evolved to build memories of previous experiences so we remember and are aware of the changes and we can imagine the near future since the possible future configurations(or states) is constrained by a small deviation of possibilities. That's what I believe anyways.

  • @Norpan506

    @Norpan506

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@peterhalloran291 Time does not exist.

  • @peterhalloran291

    @peterhalloran291

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Norpan506 I agree that's what I was trying to say, I just did so poorly.

  • @Norpan506

    @Norpan506

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@peterhalloran291 You don't believe it has a direction? :)

  • @mdavid1955
    @mdavid19555 жыл бұрын

    I listened to Brian Green explain time as we experience it as "an illusion our brains create". He described time not as a flowing river, but a sequence of "now moments" (inertial frames)the analogy being to the frames of a movie film. This clearly implies that "all the time that exist in our Cosmos" is already there, the past,present and future simply being different "now moments" He also touched on entropy as being the cause of the "arrow of time"

  • @ComputerGarageLLC

    @ComputerGarageLLC

    5 жыл бұрын

    i remember that. Good vid.

  • @daffidavit

    @daffidavit

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, like a film camera that can record an infinite amount of frames per second. Oh, wait, Heisenberg would object to that.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    So that's a particular philosophical position based in the physics of special relativity...but special relativity is not the last word on time, so take the philosophy with a grain of salt.

  • @booJay

    @booJay

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulMSutter I'm confused, so the loaf of bread analogy that Brian Greene used isn't true, but merely a potential interpretation of special relativity? I thought that Einstein discovered in order for the universe to be the way it was that all time had to exist and we only experience time as flowing and having direction because it's the only way our minds are capable of processing information.

  • @booJay

    @booJay

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulMSutter also, thank you for making a video about time, easily my favorite subject! Looking forward to the next one.

  • @dilipdas5777
    @dilipdas57774 жыл бұрын

    Time is really so complicated that I feel my brain is going to explode when I think about time deeply

  • @madderhat5852
    @madderhat58525 жыл бұрын

    5:40 When someone says "rare" my curiosity sense triggers.

  • @alexanderkrizel6187
    @alexanderkrizel61875 жыл бұрын

    As far as the arrow of time, I present the following: math is the language of science. Much like English is he language of what I am writing. Just like English (or any other language) can be used to describe things and expand our knowledge, it can also be used to create things (that are not there) or to wrongly describe things. That is why I don't think that just because something is possible in a language it means that the same thing is possible in real life, i.e. travelling back in time for the language of math or dragons and wizards for the language of English.

  • @aleatoriac7356

    @aleatoriac7356

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes. That's a pretty major problem I've noticed in discourse. I believe this is an example of the reification fallacy, or the fallacy of mistaking our linguistic expressions of abstractions for the things the abstractions are based on. Map isn't the territory, right?

  • @KaiseruSoze
    @KaiseruSoze5 жыл бұрын

    It's easy to demonstrate how to measure one length with another. But, if it's not easy to show that "Time is what a clock measures." Maybe the concept of time is wrong. Consider measuring speed with a reference speed. Consider that the second hand on a clock is 60x faster than the minute hand and that the hour hand is 60x slower than the minute hand. Then realize that measuring one length with another works out the same way as measuring one speed with another. I have done this, and have checked that it is consistent with special relativity. It seems to me that clocks provide us with a reference speed that we can use to measure other speeds. BTW, connecting the parametric "concept" of time, a deterministic phenomena, to a stochastic phenomena helps only in anchoring the parameter to a physical phenomena. But doesn't help with understanding. If you place your finger on the table and move it, you'll find that you can't move your finger away from its starting point a negative distance. I should also mention that Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin agree with me.

  • @RuiLeTubo
    @RuiLeTubo5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe time really keeps moving back and forward but we only notice the resulting balance, which is the one energetically cheaper, entropy.

  • @kristinemccowan6572
    @kristinemccowan65725 жыл бұрын

    Time fascinates me !

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    You'll be glad to know you're not alone :)

  • @frankhoffman3566
    @frankhoffman356610 ай бұрын

    Puzzling, We are told it's the space-time continuum. but we perceive these as fundamentally separate, very different properties. A measuring tape is a very inexact measure of time, just as a watch will never measure distance in space with any precision.

  • @brandonl6873
    @brandonl68735 жыл бұрын

    This video is time well spent!

  • @jeffbguarino
    @jeffbguarino4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the problem is with the question "why time has a direction?" Maybe the question is bad. He is comparing time to space. The arrow is a spatial thing, Direction is spatial. Time does not have a direction , it is what it is , just like space does not have a time to it or a speed, it is just space.

  • @clintwolf1557
    @clintwolf15574 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video, as always. Thanks,

  • @9khimaera
    @9khimaera5 жыл бұрын

    This is probably a dumb comment, but isn't time just the process of processes processing, of stuff behaving as it has to, given its properties? Time only exists as a description of the inevitable consequences of the properties of stuff interacting, and has no existence apart from that.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Could you say something similar about space?

  • @brandonsmith1838

    @brandonsmith1838

    5 жыл бұрын

    Time is just a measurement of movement...no movement no time.

  • @9khimaera

    @9khimaera

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulMSutter I'm not sure I entirely understand what you mean. If you mean the universe (space) is just doing what the universe must, then fine. I guess you must mean that, because any area of space can be defined in 3 dimensions without reference to time (even though this would be only a partial 'truth') but it's difficult to see how time can be measured without reference to motion of some sort. That probably isn't what you mean. and I'm just being dense....

  • @KafshakTashtak

    @KafshakTashtak

    5 жыл бұрын

    MollaSadra (Persian Philosopher) has said that many years ago. IIRC, he said that movement or change is a fandamental property of everything (like their energy, their location, etc) and everything moves towards its completeness. You should do your own research on that.

  • @KafshakTashtak

    @KafshakTashtak

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@brandonsmith1838 I guess that's how we define time in Physics, not in our life. In physics we always define time as intervals of repeatable processes (movements of our planet, moon, tick tock of a mechanical clock, vibrations of quarts crystals or electrons in a Cesium atom.)

  • @garyvale8347
    @garyvale83473 жыл бұрын

    Paul makes science fun .......he has a way of explaining complicated topics in an understandable and entertaining way....

  • @theDuffChimp
    @theDuffChimp5 жыл бұрын

    We are walking backwards along a road. The road is physical aspect, we can see where we have been with decreasing fidelity over distance. We can only walk backwards and we can only guess about what the road brings based on past and present road conditions.

  • @md.fazlulkarim6480
    @md.fazlulkarim64805 жыл бұрын

    What is Time? 1. Assume the three dimensional Universe is inside a three dimensional photo Frame. Everything in this universe is dynamic and changing in relative to other things and itself. Entropy is changing also. 2. The whole Universe inside the frame marked as Now Moment is separated from previous Now Moment by shortest possible separator Planck-time. 3. Last Now Moments are Record, History, Memory or Information. Next Now Moments are next changed states of the Universe inside Frame. 4. Only Now Moment Exist. Past and Future do not exist. Flow of Time forward or backward does not exist. No arrow of time. It is arrow of Change with elapse of Time. Moment is ticking repeatedly at Planck-Time interval with a new 3D-Photo of the Universe whether any change or not. If no change, then can describe "no change for certain number of ticking Moments". Time is universal. 5. Conscious Mind can make predictions of next Moments from experience and can plan events for next Moments. 6. Every Planck-Volume’s “Now” of the Universe including space and stuffs in it is always in the same Now Moment Frame of the Universe. Relative Clock ticking, fast or slow, at different planck-volume for different conditions does not shift anything to previous or next Moment Frames of the Universe. Because clocks ticking slow or fast does not mean Time elapsing slow or fast. It is error of the clock for certain condition which need to be adjusted. All points Now remain in the Now Moment Frame of the Universe. That is why twins of paradox can meet at any ones Now though relatively they are backward or forward in respect of amount of time elapsed. Time travel is not possible. Our invented Clocks and Calendars are misleading us about time in the repetition of day & night and seasons. 7. The Unit by Clock is three dimensional at any point of the Universe. X axis: Universal Period of Time, Y axis: Passage or Elapse of Time and Z axis: Local Present or Now. Our Clocks only show one dimension: passage of Time. Clocks are good measuring device of motion with a Unit but that is not Time.

  • @MasamuneX
    @MasamuneX5 жыл бұрын

    quantum mechanically the flow of time is described by entanglement entropy i.e things are entangled and when entanglement is broken it causes a fork in the road for a 3,1 spacetime down two possible outcomes. since the act of measurement on a fundamental level is just comparing outcomes, the act of measurement is why time exists. (if i'm missing something please correct me)

  • @SampleroftheMultiverse
    @SampleroftheMultiverse10 ай бұрын

    I am going with the misunderstanding that we use a time line to think about time. I believe time should be looked at as a zero to +infinity line. It starts at every point and radiates out from there carrying all the information about that point. 9:19

  • @timothykieper
    @timothykieper3 жыл бұрын

    I understood it perfectly before watching this video. Perhaps the secret is to not over think a subject ?

  • @matadorprime6555
    @matadorprime65555 жыл бұрын

    It feels as though the way in which time can move backwards is by lowering entropy. Are black holes low entropy? That, however would mean that anything falling into a black hole is moving back in time.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is the tricky thing about connecting entropy to time. Entropy can lower locally, so it's obviously not directly related, but entropy throughout the entire universe rises.

  • @jamesgraham6796
    @jamesgraham67965 жыл бұрын

    Time goes forward and we are just along for the ride.

  • @kelly2fly
    @kelly2fly5 жыл бұрын

    I made it to the end of the video. Time really does fly by when one is enjoying something.

  • @anirudhadhote
    @anirudhadhote5 ай бұрын

    Hi Sir, I have a simple question. Inside a factory at the end of the shift a supervisor and his co-worker are counting the produced objects, the objects are approximately the size of a tennis ball. It is their daily routine,the worker counts the objects as he takes it from the production lot and puts it inside a bag. The role of the supervisor is to keep watch so that there is no mistake while counting. One fine day, before starting the counting process, the supervisor looks at the lot and writes down some random three digit number as quantity of the produced items, in short he assumes that the actual quantity would probably match with that number. Now the question is what are the chances of that actual quantity matching exactly with that random number?

  • @CarloMarchiori
    @CarloMarchiori4 жыл бұрын

    In fact as momentum is linked to movement through space, energy is our momentum through time. The difference is that in space we can move, slow down, speed up, stop, in time instead everything seems to flow together in a sort of unison. Ah, and there's that minus sign...

  • @greggnicholson7440
    @greggnicholson74402 жыл бұрын

    Since the free energy expression provides a relationship between enthalpy and entropy... is enthalpy also connected to time?

  • @adamnagy3498
    @adamnagy34985 жыл бұрын

    "Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again?"...

  • @larrywilliams3854
    @larrywilliams385411 ай бұрын

    Our Govt has aircraft that speed of the craft is irrelevant because although it's extremely fast it also covers a vast distance in zero time. It distorts the fabric of time ahead of itself and leaps through the fabric once it builds to a release of the bundled mass of distance. Think of it as sliding on a long narrow rug and having carpet bunch up in front of you and when the mass becomes to heavy to build up anymore it's flies behind you unwrapping it's self. The unofficial official craft is the Astra. This was how it was explained to me .

  • @davidrosner6267
    @davidrosner62675 жыл бұрын

    The direction of time is a macroscopic effect of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The fact that the overall entropy of the universe must always increase propels is inevitably towards the future.

  • @CraigPMiller

    @CraigPMiller

    5 жыл бұрын

    The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time. Are you suggesting the universe is an isolated system? :)

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to explore the pros and cons of that idea in the next episode!

  • @TropicalTopicx
    @TropicalTopicx3 жыл бұрын

    What if we look at all you mentioned in opposite way? When we observe entropy, time is our perception of the event. The formation of an entropic event in the observer's eye takes "time." There is also no such thing as a "arrow of time." Our galaxy is moving at 2.1 million km/h and our solar system is moving at 828000 km/h Through space-time. This movement's direction is "perceived" as "arrow of time." Because whatever you do is not fast enough to get back to where you were a second ago, therefore we feel we cannot go back in time. Time slows down as you speed up because you are counteracting the movement of the galaxy and getting closer to staying in one "place-time".

  • @cricket1772
    @cricket1772 Жыл бұрын

    I just want to see how far we progress I don’t want to die in this era

  • @jasonparkes601
    @jasonparkes6012 жыл бұрын

    What's the go with speed affecting time?

  • @pearson73gerry
    @pearson73gerry5 жыл бұрын

    So is it an oversimplification to consider time to be just another dimension (x, y, z, and then t), since t seems to be fundamentally different from the other three? Or is it that there exist an indefinite (infinite?) number of dimensions, each of which is just an attribute of "things", and the first three (x, y, and z) are unique in some way?

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    We can certainly treat time as the fourth dimension, but it has some properties unlike the spatial dimensions...

  • @jeremygeltman
    @jeremygeltman10 ай бұрын

    Entropy is the arrow of time, but what creates the tick? What isbthe thing that allows it to move from ordered to less ordered?

  • @oisnowy5368
    @oisnowy53685 жыл бұрын

    While I think entropy is quite awesome to put it mildly, I don't think I'd connect it to a cause of the arrow of time. To formulate it wrongly, I'd consider entropy to be more emergent than fundamental. And let's not forget to mention those time cheats called photons.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'll go into a lot more detail about that connection in my next video...stay tuned!

  • @AZOffRoadster

    @AZOffRoadster

    5 жыл бұрын

    Photons are always slower than causality.

  • @jonathanshepherd3275
    @jonathanshepherd32755 ай бұрын

    Time is simply a unit of measurement. Time is proportionate and relevant to the observers size and the total amount of data/information the observer perceives per instance. Time is subjective, there is only now, what has been and what "will" be which, includes many variables.

  • @JavSusLar
    @JavSusLar5 жыл бұрын

    Is the following hypothesis empirically discarded? Inexistence of antimatter in our universe: the observable universe is just a tiny fraction of the entire universe. Because of the statistical deviation, the fraction of matter was slightly higher than antimatter and that “slightly” is the amount of matter that survived the mutual annihilation.

  • @bryandraughn9830
    @bryandraughn9830 Жыл бұрын

    It seems like the 3 spacial dimensions themselves are all moving in the forward time direction. They aren't moving anywhere else, right? I can't help but wonder if the vacuum is moving forward through time. Also, this idea of traveling forward through time to some event in the future is not correct. Isn't the idea to REFRAIN from moving forward while the rest of the universe zooms ahead while you are near a gravitational field or using acceleration? This is in a landscape that is already moving forward everywhere, unlike a spatial analog, which is relatively static until you take off in some direction while the landscape stays put. The examples that are often explained leave all of this out. Which is quite confusing. Thanks for another great video!

  • @CraigPMiller
    @CraigPMiller5 жыл бұрын

    Hmmm... nice... Q: Scientists talk of the geometry of space-time but seem to only talk about the geometry of space, ignoring time. Gravity affects the geometry of space-time. Is it logical to conclude that there is a geometry of time? The 'flow' of time would be analogous to the 'flow' of gravity. We can move 'uphill' against the 'force' of gravity by the application of energy along the correct axis. Changing the geometry of space-time might enable time to flow in a different direction. :) Great show.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Time gets bent too! Check out my series on general relativity to see how it works.

  • @CraigPMiller

    @CraigPMiller

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulMSutter My point, exactly. :) Time has geometry and we're sliding down the incline. :) 😎😲

  • @zagreb2012
    @zagreb20125 жыл бұрын

    When will have chance to ask question live?

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm live every Thursday at 4pm ET!

  • @petevenuti7355
    @petevenuti735510 ай бұрын

    It's a side effect of gravity, because our universe is the inside if a black hole, our future is the infinity (a singularity is an Infinity that we constantly approach, not a physical point) at the 'center' that's also why we can't go backwards, getting deeper is what we perceive as the universe expanding. Here's the kicker though, it doesn't matter if time moved forwards or backwards, we would always perceive it as forward because of entropy! We could be going backwards in time right now and not know it!

  • @larrybeckham6652
    @larrybeckham66525 жыл бұрын

    Time may SEEM to depends on entropy, I think it depends on memory. A being has to form memories to experience the passage of time. Within that being's brain, entropy actually INCREASE within that closed system. Then, at the time of death, time freezes and entropy explodes into disorder. Does make any sense?

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    We're going to assume for the sake of being able to do physics that time is a physical thing.

  • @WestOfEarth
    @WestOfEarth5 жыл бұрын

    One regret I have is not understanding dimensional math better. My hypothesis about time and its direction is that we are basically experiencing the 'shadow' of a two dimensional time vector. The Universe being comprised of a number of spatial dimensions and two temporal dimensions. The Temporal Vector, of course, orients forward and backward in time. But just as we only experience 3 dimensions of our multi-dimensional universe, we only experience 1 dimension of the temporal vector. I imagine if there were such beings as multi-dimensional entities, they could move freely in X dimensions, as well as forward and backward in time. Every version of String Theory I'm familiar with offers only one dimension of time. So I guess I'd be up in the grill of String theorists, lol. I like the idea of two dimensional time because it explains quantum entanglement.

  • @brianleemings8177
    @brianleemings81773 жыл бұрын

    Time is a human construct - Devin Townsend Project from the album "Transcendence."

  • @veganwolf3268
    @veganwolf32685 жыл бұрын

    Backward time is possible but highly improbable because every particle in the universe would have to return to its previous state. A few might do just that, but not all, so the next state is likely to be a different state from any previous state. Hence the arrow of time.

  • @peterq1978
    @peterq19785 жыл бұрын

    we cant talk about time now, i dont have the time. ill make time for you Paul

  • @retrosimon9843
    @retrosimon98434 жыл бұрын

    Can a sufficiently advanced consciousness perceive and experience time how it pleases ?

  • @klausgartenstiel4586
    @klausgartenstiel45865 жыл бұрын

    even if i'd watch this video in reverse, i would still watch it one second at a time.

  • @brucewilkinson8599
    @brucewilkinson85995 жыл бұрын

    With this possible idea of entropy being connected to what is "time" physics and philosophy seem to meet.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh believe you me there's plenty of physics to go around...stay tuned for my next video :)

  • @Music_Creativity_Science
    @Music_Creativity_Science8 ай бұрын

    A general arrow of time is a thought error imo. It is an abstraction. Instead every atom, with its most fundamental building blocks (not discovered yet if string theory is wrong) is a clock, which has a certain rate of change. Depending on where it is located in a gravitational field, and/or, the amount of mechanical acceleration is it affected by. You then have a general change (an universal arrow of CHANGE), which emerges from these clocks together. Why does the universe emerge like it does ? No one knows. It must emerge in some way if its basic feature is to never stop changing. To better understand what time is, and isn't, it can be viewed from three aspects: 1. Physical time (real time), which I descibed above. It never started, it is not a basic property of change to start. Instead its natural properties are rate of change (relative to other objects), the amount of energy involved, and a direction of the change. And change can't logically start from a totally unchanging state. Therefore, existence never started (prior to Big Bang, if that happened), and existence never started to change (the quantum vacuum has changes for example). 2. Observational time, which is described in the Special theory of Relativity. Specific observers observe time changing in specific objects in the universe, depending on relative motion, distance, and propagating of light between objects. This observed time is not the physical real time described above, it is just specific observers view of it depending on relative distances and velocities. The real time dilation (changed rate of change in atoms in a moving object) was created when it was accelerated**, to create the relative movement. That is, before Special theory of Relativity comes into play. Gravitational time dilation is physically real, of course. ** There have been no experiments done, without acceleration involved, trying to prove physical time dilation within Special theory of Relativity. Instead, Einsteins equivalence principle proves the connection between gravitational time dilation and mechanical time dilation when accelerating. There is no physical time dilation generated when an object moves without acceleration in a gravitationally free space, or when an object free falls in a gravitational field. There is the same time dilation generated when an object hangs for 10 seconds in a gravitational field of let's say 10 m/s^2, as when it is mechanically accelerated with 10 m/s^2 during 10 seconds in a gravitationally free space. 3. Psychological time, how human brains perceive, and store, light sent from the changing atoms described above. The Human brain can store photos and films created by this light, and also then decide which arrived before/after in a varying degree (memory). A human is just a specific observer, which observes specific "nows" depending on its position in the universe, among all the "nows" which exist everywhere in the universe. The universe only has a past in the form of prior states of emergence among all the atoms in it. That is change, not time. Time is a human construct, to compare different rates of change between objects. "Time is a stubborn illusion" (Einstein)

  • @edwardjohannes360
    @edwardjohannes3602 жыл бұрын

    We never live in the present time as everything we perceive has already happened in the past.

  • @n-steam
    @n-steam4 жыл бұрын

    I think we will answer the question of 'the arrow of time', when we can fully explain how chemical processes in the brain produces consciousness. I don't believe this can be symmetrical in time. It must only produce a result in one direction, or at least be perceived in one direction. Free will can only exist in the 'forward' direction, and I don't think anything without free will can be self-aware. I think dismissing out-of-hand that it can't be related to the brain's function is a form of observer-effect/observational-bias. I mean, you're trying to understand your perception of time without considering that your perception is inextricably part of it.

  • @s3ntry948

    @s3ntry948

    4 жыл бұрын

    n.steam Free will is not that free.

  • @abz998
    @abz9985 жыл бұрын

    What was that rare weird interaction with the weak nuclear force you mentioned in 5:40.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Great question, it's on the list!

  • @michaelbuteau4183
    @michaelbuteau41832 жыл бұрын

    I don't think we walk through time I think we walk with time

  • @sebastianschulz6531
    @sebastianschulz65314 жыл бұрын

    so spoke paul, a time lord :-D

  • @KafshakTashtak
    @KafshakTashtak5 жыл бұрын

    Here's a question: Do animals understand if we show them a video backwards? For example, if we show video of an egg falling down and breaking to a dog backwards, How would it behave? Would it still understand that it's backwards? My guess is that they understand time, even though they don't count it.

  • @mariokajin
    @mariokajin5 жыл бұрын

    I might be wrong (not that it would be a surprise) but time isn’t the only (oh god my English sucks) unit dimension that we experience one way. What/how about mass and length. Can we experience negative gravity (not acceleration)...

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Correct, time had an arrow while the spatial dimensions do not. We don't know why...

  • @farrier2708
    @farrier27085 жыл бұрын

    Since the dawn of life on this planet, biological systems have become increasingly more complex and ordered. Stellar and planetary formations emerge from disordered nebulae to form ordered structures. Can somebody please explain how biological and physical evolution towards complexity and order is reconciled with increasing entropy? The only explanations I can come up with are :- 1. Somebody stuck a minus sign (or plus sign) where it shouldn't be and got the calc' wrong. or 2. Time is running backwards. (from our relative point of view, that is.) The second reason doesn't even bare thinking about, when you go to the bathroom. 8¬[] {edited for bad grammar]

  • @rangaswamykalegowda5952
    @rangaswamykalegowda59524 жыл бұрын

    Will you please explain Einstein's space and time combined together as spacetime?

  • @MrKago1
    @MrKago1 Жыл бұрын

    I watched Leonard Suskind's lecture on the arrow of time like 4 times. still hurts my brain. but there is a point where time doesn't exist, my friggin lunch break. just start it, oops, its over.

  • @OrionMichaelGuy
    @OrionMichaelGuy5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Paul, I have to say a couple things first off: The Earliest Galaxies (Elliptical Galaxies) have little to no structure and would look "to the observer" to have higher entropy then the older Spiral Galaxies... That would indicate that "Entropy" is... ... ... Early/Younger Galaxy Big Blob Of Stars, (as I hold up my fingers and count with my thumbs...) Older Galaxies Have Order... (imagine Big Dumb Dumb Scratching His Head) Young Galaxy Big Blob - Old Galaxy Well Ordered Uniform Structure/s = LESS ENTROPY! lol Taking into account the idea or "theory" that mainstream science thinks the Universe will shrivel away into nothingness eventually, which it wont...!!! But taking in that "conclusion" based on "science" I think it is safe to say that there is more discoveries to be had... And that is where I find myself today trying to get through to you... You do state that you think there is a possibility of a genius coming along and giving us the answers to everything; but wouldn't you say that that would be practically impossible with today's culture of narcissism and pessimistic culture, where the show runners of the "cult of science" would not, will not, allow anything to challenge the status quo? Let alone other suppression of science & tech because of commercial and even classified endeavors... (public domain science is not the only science that exists... I do hope you realize that...) With that out of the way, if you made it this far, I will present to you an article I wrote a couple years ago that does not use exactly the same language you/the mainstream scientific community uses, some terms and concepts need defining/clarification, which I have available but will not fill in at this time because of the width and breadth of the theory, but I am pretty sure you will be able to gather what I am trying to say even though there may be a mismatch of terminology... And of course I realize the theory is "radical" to say the least, but, if you can, just read it for what it is; its not my best article, and its not my most accessible article, but it packs enough information in it that for someone like you I think you may find if profound, and I do hope you let me continue to express more ideas and articles with you... with that said (PS: Thanks for your consideration and no need to reply) ("Dark Energy" is Aether/Space-Time/One Density of 10 of the "Higgs Field" etc - again just read it and take it for what it is...) - - - Time is the interaction of Matter and Space - Matter is Energy and Space is Dark Energy, this combined with Gravity creates a tick rate, which is the passage of time - Gravity is Quantized at the different scales of the Universe What is Quantum Gravity? The First State of Quantum Gravity is the Crystal Core we are entangled in - The Crystal Core of the Black Hole in the Universe "Above Us" The Second State of Quantum Gravity is the Wormhole from this Universe to the Universe "Above Us" The Third State of Quantum Gravity is the Void. The Void is referred to as the Dark Energy State - Dark Energy is Space - Space is not empty nothingness, Space is basically a Superfluid Liquid Crystal Structure that forms up one half of the Universe - The Universe is a Binary system, You have "Space" or more precisely "Dark Energy" that is the Electric Force, and you have Matter/Energy that is the Magnetic Force - their interaction is the foundation of the ElectroMagnetic Universe; Time, Gravity, Etc The 4th State of Quantum Gravity is the "Dark Matter State" - This is the State where the Galaxy creates a "bubble" around itself within the Void, where there is MORE Dark Energy outside the bubble that inside the bubble - All Matter/Energy is actively "PUSHING" on the Dark Energy Field with its Electromagnetic Energy - the Galaxy "pushes" against the force of the "Void" or the "Dark Energy State" with its Electromagnetic Radiation Energy - This Energy eventually decays and actually turns into more Space/Dark Energy! The 5th State of Quantum Gravity is the Crystal Iron Cores of the Cosmos, the Stars, Planets, Moons and Protoplanets, the "Cores of the Cosmos" are Crystal Core Quantum Computers, These Cores use their Electromagnetic Energy and create a "bubble" around themselves, where there is MORE Dark Energy on the outside of the bubble than inside - the Cores of the Cosmos form up the "Surface" or the "Surface of Life" - Man, or the Humanoid is the Primal of 5 - the Evolutionary Descendant and form the Cores chose to create as their "vessels of flesh" The 6th State of Quantum Gravity is the Surface of the Atom - There is More Dark Energy on the outside of the Atom than inside the Atom The 7th, 8th and 9th States of Quantum Gravity are the Shells within the Atom, with 9 being "Local Entanglement" The 10th Quantum State of Gravity is the Black Hole or the Cross as in X, which leads to a new set of Quantum States of Gravity! The Crystal Core of the Black Hole leads to a new Universe - Universes within Universes To understand this, how the Universe creates Gravity and Time, you need to understand that "Time" is the Interaction of Matter/Energy and Space/Dark Energy - so the MORE Dark Energy interacting with Matter, the More Time can occur Gravity is the Electromagnetic Force Matter exerts on the Universe, on Dark Energy that creates a "Dark Energy Field Effect" or Gravity - what that means is that Matter pushes Space away from itself and Space pushes back, as each piece of Matter gets close to each other, their "Distortion Fields" touch each other and so this creates a "Path of Least Resistance" and Pushes Matter together - Dark Energy is Pushing all Matter together! "Does Space have Density" - YES - That's why we have "Gravity Waves" - So, the Denser the "Space" (which is really Dark Energy) the more Time can occur, the less "Space" the less Time can occur Motion of Matter Equals Gravity Equals Energy (Plus about 10%) - It's the very motion of Matter over the Dark Energy Field that creates the Electromagnetic Energy - so the FASTER MATTER IS MOVING THE HEAVIER IT GETS The FASTER Matter moves, the the MORE Electromagnetic Energy it produces - therefore the more it pushes on "Space" and therefore the harder space pushes back - this is Gravity The FASTER Matter moves, the MORE Electromagnetic Energy it produces - therefore the more is pushes on "Space" the LESS "Space" is interacting with Matter, and Therefore THE LESS TIME! (Motion of Matter Equals Gravity = Energy plus ~ 10% - And a whole lot more!)

  • @petevenuti7355

    @petevenuti7355

    10 ай бұрын

    I gave you a thumbs up for the effort you put into that, but I'm afraid it's all word salad to me... I remember when I was like 8 trying to tell my teacher the universe was a self-stabilizing feedback that was in the form of a 4 dimensional spiral propagating outward .. back then I probably turned it into a two-page essay as well...

  • @peteranderson2687
    @peteranderson26872 жыл бұрын

    Hi all. Im not a physicist but when I think about time and space I always think about Einstein and his idea about realitivity. Is time a property of space as in Space/Time. Or is space a property of time as in Time/Space. Or are they seperated by space and time???????????? (

  • @dark808bb8
    @dark808bb85 жыл бұрын

    great vid

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @grannysvids
    @grannysvids5 жыл бұрын

    its my understanding that time will only go forward 1 second at a time or it can be slowed down depending on what objects are around you e.g: mass of objects (the more mass the object near you, the slower time goes) the faster you travel, the slower time moves for you. there is no going back in time but we can observe objects in the past such as far away stars or galaxies as light travels at a constant speed and never changes. Any stars or celestial bodies where they are billions of light years away that we can observe today on our planet are probably non existent by now but the light from them is still traveling to us.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, time can speed up and slow down, but it can't reverse. And we have no idea why :)

  • @arman757

    @arman757

    5 жыл бұрын

    But aren't their concepts proposing faster than light travel would mathematically reverse time?

  • @grannysvids

    @grannysvids

    5 жыл бұрын

    arman757 ~ No, faster than light would not reverse time. It would only be slower relative to someone who was not. Time is not constant everywhere, it more like time is not real. It’s only our consciousness perceives it depending on where you are.

  • @jeremygeltman
    @jeremygeltman10 ай бұрын

    Don’t neutrinos have an asymmetric time oscillation?

  • @pablocopello3592
    @pablocopello359211 ай бұрын

    Suppose you have a table with a trillion coins, all coins are initially heads. Think you can shake the table in a way that each coin has 99.9% probability of continue in the same orientation (head or tail) and 0.1% probability of change orientation (head to tail or tail to head). If you shake many times the table: to what percentage of coins in head orientation will you approach ? It is clear that after many shakes the system will be with near 50%/50% heads/tails. The percentage of "heads" is the MACRO state, the specification of the state of each coin (head or tail) is the MICRO state. The system tends to the macro-state 50% because that is the macro-state with more micro-states. The entropy of a macro state is NOT disorder of that macro state, but the (logarithm of) the number of micro-states corresponding to that macro state. Entropy increases if you consider all micro states equally probable (the increase is probabilistic, not deterministic, if micro states are not equi-probable, they should have to be added weighted by their relative probability). You can see in this example that in spite of having a time symmetric underlying law, you have an arrow of time at a macroscopic level, but that arrow of time only arises when you are in a configuration that is far from the maximum entropy, near maximum entropy there is no arrow of time: this system will approach the macrostate 50/50 (arrow of time) until it is very near 50/50 and then it will oscillate arount 50/50 (no arrow of time).

  • @schakiarligonde1736

    @schakiarligonde1736

    11 ай бұрын

    I don’t really like the entropic explanation of the arrow of time I think the arrow of time causes entropy increase not the other way around

  • @terezin199
    @terezin1995 жыл бұрын

    isn't gravity not also a one way street? always attracting and never dispelling.

  • @JavSusLar
    @JavSusLar5 жыл бұрын

    Equivalence matter-energy: matter bends the fabric of space-time. So do photons? Otherwise stated: let’s suppose two photons are emitted in parallel trajectories at the same time. Do they bend each other’s path?

  • @fieryeyez6607
    @fieryeyez6607Ай бұрын

    Thanks for interesting videos. LOL so you're saying it's cause and effect as opposed to effect and cause? 😅 kind of intuitive conclusion. Personally i like when the answers turn out that way.

  • @stridedeck
    @stridedeck4 жыл бұрын

    There is no arrow of time. Time is not reversable in the quantum world as playing it backwards does not mean time is reversable. The reason being, time and distance are interchangeable. Distance without time, means there is no distance. Time without distance, means there is no time. These quamtum particles must move. That movement is a distance in a particular amount of time. Reversing it by playing it backwards, still has the same amount of distance with the same particular amount of time. Sure, the effects of which particle hits which particle changes, but the time is still identical.

  • @peterhalloran291
    @peterhalloran2915 жыл бұрын

    IMO time has an arrow and flow because I believe it's not fundamental just an emergent property we experience as the surrounding space changes state. The rate at which these changes occur are all relative too.

  • @petevenuti7355

    @petevenuti7355

    10 ай бұрын

    If it wasn't fundamental nothing would change state! I do agree there is a difference between what we perceive as time and what fundamental time is.

  • @geordiedog1749
    @geordiedog1749 Жыл бұрын

    Can time go up and down and sideways, then?

  • @MrBengourben
    @MrBengourben5 жыл бұрын

    Could time be the universe winking in and out of existence, flickering, being replaced by a new universe at the speed of light?.. But not perfectly Easier done in a vacuum, harder to do at places of high matter density, like black holes, where there is more matter, harder to replace, that's why time slows at places of high matter density.. Stops at black holes, where there is infinite density. It's like we are part of a flip book, each page being a new universe, to enable us to move forward in "time" Maybe it's why light speed is the limit. It's the speed at which the universe is being replaced. Could also possibly explain entropy, the universe wants to get to a level, smooth state of flickering. Maybe?

  • @willettej7988
    @willettej7988 Жыл бұрын

    Have you ever listened to Hugh Ross?

  • @gavinwince
    @gavinwince Жыл бұрын

    It's only 'weird' because the conventional maths used to describe time have been limited to a single dimension.

  • @ytpadyt
    @ytpadyt4 жыл бұрын

    Time is sequence of changes..ie movements. Entropy is possibility executed

  • @yveskamdem5518
    @yveskamdem5518 Жыл бұрын

    If one were to go to the past, would it be right to say that his future is to go to the past?

  • @WestOfEarth
    @WestOfEarth5 жыл бұрын

    I like this approach except for one aspect. We must define the boundary of the system, right? So in moving from order to disorder, this assumes no outside energy is being added to our defined environment. If energy is added, a system can move from disorder to order. Does this mean time is travelling backward? Not really. As you know, pumping energy into a system is how evolution can happen...creating order from disorder on Earth.

  • @lloydscharf6897
    @lloydscharf689711 ай бұрын

    Would't Interdementional travel be "Sideways in time"?

  • @stevephillips8083
    @stevephillips80835 жыл бұрын

    How could you measure an unchanging system? ;)

  • @cebineragn8339

    @cebineragn8339

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you can't measure it, how would you know it's unchanging?

  • @aleatoriac7356
    @aleatoriac73565 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't a sufficiently integrated information processor that is conscious (models environment, models the information processing, and models the capacity to model all these) helplessly experience an arrow of time if that processor is also made of an entropic substrate? It would experience the model of more ordered states as unchangeable and the model of less ordered states (less evenly distributed) with even less certainty, and as changeable. It really isn't changing anything except by virtue of being part of the entropy of the system itself. Don't know.

  • @gerrywood
    @gerrywood4 жыл бұрын

    Time is what it takes for something to happen. Without time, no event can happen, not even the start of time itself, since that would be an event. Therefore, time has to be eternal. Chaos is the result of determinism. Every effect must have a cause and every cause must have an effect. Chaos is the pile-up of all the causes and effects that have accumulated since forever. Causes are not constrained by time. For example, the light emitted by a star 12 billion years ago causes an astronomer to publish a paper that creates multiple effects. We are the result of a huge multitude of causes, some of which we may never be able to discover. Chaos is king.

  • @ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958
    @ninehundreddollarluxuryyac59585 жыл бұрын

    Amazing there is controversy over what makes it go. I thought there was an accepted explanation that time is expanding along with the three spatial dimensions since the big bang. In other words, the forward passage of time being caused by the expansion of the other three dimensions in our frame of reference and its cooling effect on the observable part of the universe. Thermodynamics and heat combined with relativity and inflation (expansion slowing the relativistic particle speeds locally, and the local observable universe always cooling). Isn't that the accepted explanation about what makes it go? Are you saying entropy is the rule that forces time to expand as a result of the expansion of the three spatial dimensions? So time being a framework established at the time of the big bang along with the three spatial dimensions, and then the same entropy law governing your particles and pistons within this expanding framework is what we're so attuned to that we know when a movie is played backwards? Or are you saying the entropy gain as the piston moves out of the way of the particles in my car engine is creating the future right now? It seems as though these are two different things.

  • @KittyBoom360
    @KittyBoom3605 жыл бұрын

    As you grow from an embryo into an adult, your entropy decreases, yet time passes for you. As you 'age' and die, your entropy increases, yet time passes for you, IN THE SAME DIRECTION. Thus, it's not entropy that can 'explain' it.

  • @mojavecourier6987

    @mojavecourier6987

    4 жыл бұрын

    Does no one know what entropy means? It means disorder and randomness lol I don't get why everyone keeps using it. A new term needs to replace it.

  • @jeffbguarino
    @jeffbguarino4 жыл бұрын

    When something falls into a black hole according to the (non time arrow) laws of physics , you should be able to reverse the equation and have the object come out of the black hole but you can't. So this is an equation that has a definite arrow of time. it is irreversible.

  • @dilipdas5777
    @dilipdas57774 жыл бұрын

    Time seems like it's infinite but time can be infinite? Why it has no starting point and if time started with big bang then why there is no before. Why time before big bang is meaningless?

  • @edwardspence-fo8vt
    @edwardspence-fo8vt9 ай бұрын

    The reason most people don't understand time is because they are limited by time people live on a ball revolving in space human beings have a beginning and for now we have an end. Time doesn't exist but it does if people measure it

  • @markpetricevic3368
    @markpetricevic33682 жыл бұрын

    so it has to do with heat. there for we get the expression frozen in time

  • @wulphstein
    @wulphstein4 жыл бұрын

    These action units always start at a point, and expand at the speed of light. Therefore, time travel is unavailable.

  • @francretief1
    @francretief14 жыл бұрын

    Why is Time considered complicated? Surely Time is just related to movement and therefore quite simple to understand. If all movement stopped (including movement of particles and atoms), then time will not exist. So it seems to me that Time is a derivative of movement. In cases where time is reversible, it only means that movement can be reversed in that instance. In the macroscopic world the the arrow of time is not reversible because it is not possible to reverse all movements in the universe.

  • @bigneto95
    @bigneto955 жыл бұрын

    Maybe a additional dimension that we did't teorized makes a direct link between they

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    We've checked for extra dimensions and we can't find any :(

  • @bigneto95

    @bigneto95

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulMSutter :(

  • @Pyriold
    @Pyriold5 жыл бұрын

    The second law is statistics. There can and will be order from chaos, even in a closed system, but it is highly unlikely. That's why i don't like that explanation. I don't think time relies on statistics and can reverse itself in rare circumstances.

  • @PaulMSutter

    @PaulMSutter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that part definitely seems...icky.

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