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Time Exists for One Reason… and It's Terrifying

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In school you learned the first formula you ever really trusted: to find a distance, square the parts and add them together. The formula for distance in space and time is almost exactly the same, except for one small change that nobody ever explains. Where your schoolbook adds, the universe subtracts. Why is that minus sign there?

Tonight we take the slow road, rebuilding relativity from nothing to find where that one flipped sign truly comes from, and what it quietly holds together.

Get cozy, dim the lights, and let this slow walk through space, time, and the strange geometry of relativity carry you off to sleep. Subscribe to Sundown Science if you enjoy the long way around the universe.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
2:04 The Mark That Should Not Be There
13:15 Pretending to Know Nothing
22:16 The Speed That Refuses to Change
33:08 The Price of a Constant
43:39 The Wrong Reason for the Right Equations
52:46 The Man Who Threw Away the Ether
1:02:26 The Shadows on the Wall
1:13:46 The Thing Everyone Agrees On
1:24:31 Everything Moves at Light Speed
1:35:58 Where the Minus Sign Comes From
1:46:16 Why It Is a Minus and Not a Plus
1:56:31 Why Time Exists

SOURCES
Spacetime — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
Special relativity — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...
Minkowski space — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkows...
Lorentz transformation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz...
Proper time — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_...
Time dilation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_di...
Length contraction — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_...
Speed of light — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_o...
Principle of relativity — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
Michelson–Morley experiment — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michels...
Luminiferous aether — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminif...
Hendrik Lorentz — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik...
Hermann Minkowski — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann...
Twin paradox — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_pa...

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12 Comments

@Doggieman1111 8 days ago

Very interesting, especially the last quarter of this video

@poetry-to-song 8 days ago

What maintains the maximum speed of causality that can reveal the fundamental structure of existence?

@BuiltAndHosted 8 days ago

Space time is like perspective!

@Miopop58 2 days ago (edited)

With time we have present moment only (0) we live in that's constantly running into the past and it's not fixed point with constant passing of time.

Growing past as a minus (-) not accessible.

Future as a (+) that can be manipulated.

@DavidBunyan-nq3rs 13 hours ago

😂 Something for the writer: have you considered that something established by experiment, non-locality, may actually invoke the "plus" in your Pythagorean equation after all? Perhaps paradoxes are not entirely overcome?

@petersmid6674 4 days ago

Als je tijd als de biologische klok ziet ,dan klopt dat ,,..🔮

@markmanzo2488 7 days ago

Why are these titles always "terrifying ". YouTube tutorials must have told you guys it was a key click bait word. Don't overuse it or you'll abuse it!

@aklawrence100 5 days ago

Where does this T-I-M-E go in your daily, deep, dreamless sleep...?!?

And not only T-I-ME.....where does this 'I' & 'ME' go in your deep, dreamless, sleep....??

T - I - ME.....exists only as long as that "I" & "ME" exists.....

The moment these 2 creators of 'T-I-ME- vanish, the idea of 'TIME' disappears, too.....

And the moment this 'I' and the 'ME' reappears..... T-I-ME returns, too.....🙏

@Fyer 7 days ago

If everyone was blind. No light in our reality. What would take it's place in our form of physics?

@wbiro 8 days ago

We invented time to give temporal positional units to change so we could more easily work with change (like coordinating in recreating the past). Nothing terrifying there. What is maddening, however, is bullheaded humans continuing misconstrue time as a physical property (i.e. it should be 'spacechange', not 'spacetime').

@victoriabenjamin6484 9 days ago

Because there is a clock ticking down to zero?

@EarthFlameBae 8 days ago (edited)

That's why they wipe the mainframe storage every 3 generations and caffluffle the users into cloud storage. If we daisy chained oral and true historical facts like humans are meant to, we would've evolved past "want not, waste all" a long time ago. People and households should be keeping written book bound accounts that aren't swayed or altered by the mainframe. Especially with the mainframe being ran by the AutoFac and it's clucks. Time altering generational terrorists will tell you and your children everything but the 💯 while copy and pasting your humanity over a player running running an echo chamber interface. The way of storage in the 21st century is a lie. Storage is a human and individual right. Truth be told we have more super power, storage included, in one section of or process in our brains then every computer and smart device combined. Everything is based on a previous understanding in this world. They want us to believe it's only what they can reproduce. Well true 💯 human reality is a ever changing constant and trying to force folks into iron maiden cracker jack boxes with sickafant role play for monopoly money and never owning a thing not even your seed.... that's some BS. I won't punch that clock. Nope.