The Problem with Faster Than Light Particles | Tachyons Explained
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- Tachyons travel faster than light, so do they go backward in time? Well, maybe, but they probably don't exist. Here's why.
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00:00 Intro
00:43 What is a Tachyon?
01:27 What Everyone Gets Wrong
02:28 Spacetime Basics
03:24 Velocity Angles
04:18 Infinite Speed
05:15 How to Time Travel
06:28 Spacetime Distortion
07:23 Causality isn't Broken
07:54 More Weird Stuff
08:20 Tachyons are Imaginary
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Corrections:
00:56 "Lux" is actually Latin, not Greek. Oops! My bad.
0:56 Oops! Apparently, "Lux" is Latin not Greek. I'm not sure how I messed that up. Kind of ruins the whole bit I was going for. Oh well 🤦♂
Greek, Latin... it's all Greek to me 🤣
well, the word 'lux' is related to the Greek word 'leukos', which is usually translated as "white", but also covers the meaning of "bright," or "light" as in "a light colour"; so, it's not totally off 🙂
Maybe they used Latin for Lux as the exception because Tachyons are not real, just like Latin being a dead language.
Im sure we would have a fun chat! Haha
so how fast is infinite speed the pink line needed to travel back in time, just before it becomes infinite?
also what does it mean moving faster than light but still travelling forwards in time,the space between the yellow line and pink infinity speed?
And the bartender said “Hey, we don’t serve faster-than-light particles in here.”
One day, a tachyon walks into a bar...
This game show is actually a metaphor for tachyons.
What is Jeopardy?
This comment is actually funny
The Tachyon then says, "Why not? You did tomorrow."
Hilarious, but isn't the bartender the one moving too fast?
Ha. Ha. Haha. Ah Hah. Hah........ha.
"Math always gives us an answer, even if our question isn't about reality." -- Nick Lucid
May be one of the best math/physics quotes I've heard in a while. I don't know if he was quoting someone else, though.
I wrote that myself. Thanks 🙂
@ScienceAsylum (Tips hat) Don't thank me. Any chance of getting it on a shirt or a mug or something?
Mathematics is not a science - it tells us nothing.
@@ScienceAsylum The way I always think about it is that math is a model. No numbers are "real", just useful to describe stuff, which makes irrational numbers, imaginary ones, quaternions, etc. just as real. Sometimes that does make me wonder if some mathematical equations we use as models are just extremely precise rather than exact. You probably know more about that than I do though.
@@ScienceAsylum correction, it was the quote clone 😊
That phone call at 0:30 and 7:15 is Christopher Nolan's level genius.
I forgot about the early call. thanks for mention it lol
@@v44n7Call your early self to inform them!
@@localverse 😂
Thanks for the timestamps
Nolan would've drowned out the discussion with blaring noise that he calls a soundtrack
"Bradyons" sounds like an honorific awarded to Numberphile fans 😂
I *had* to check this wasn't one of his channels.
I was thinking of the _Objectivity_ and _Periodic Videos_ YT channels.
they are characterized by their Brady number
In the medical field, there is a specialty of medicine and of doctors called Cardiology.
In that sub-field of the medical field, there is a term "bradycardia".
Scientists and doctors love Greek words.
@@zeryphex They sure do. "emia" = presence in blood 😉
A fact that is generally overlooked about "time move slower the faster you go", its thats only true relative to another frame of reference. The electron in question will always perceive its time passisng normally, a second will always last a second for him, but it will expercience the outside world to move way faster and distances shirinking. Thats the reason relativity gave birth to a lot of paradoxes
It's like trying to get ready to go out somewhere when one has ADHD, time goes faster than I thought it would once I try to have a shower and get dried then dressed before I leave.
An observer moving at large fractions of the speed of light will observe their own time passing as normal, will observe the rest of the universe as moving slower in time, and having been length contracted in the direction of motion. Because from the perspective of the observer that's moving, it's everything else that's moving.
Half life time of elements get longer if you accelerate them.
@@MarcusM-bw9nuYou should watch again and take the above comment in mind. Then you'll probably grasp what happens the right way.
As an example of such relativistic phenomena, let's see what happens to a cosmic ray hitting our atmosphere. The atmosphere is about 100 Km. thick. When struck by a cosmic ray (a particle from outer space at a speed close to that of light), it disintegrates in a cascade of particles that also disintegrate spontaneously or on further collisions in the upper atmosphere. One of the products of such disintegration is muons. Muons have a short life, only some microseconds, so that they can only travel a few kilometres before spontaneously disintegrating. But they reach the surface! For muons from cosmic rays, our atmosphere is not 100 but about 10 Km. thick, and it rushes past the muon at a speed much higher than that of the cosmic ray due to time dilation. So, the muon has time enough to reach the surface: its clock is slowed, as 'seen' by us. For the muon, less than the allowed lifetime is required to traverse the whole of our atmosphere's thickness.
The video is giving you the shorthand explanation. The one that leaves out that time dilation only manifests for the observer. It’s a common way to describe relativity, but leads to huge misunderstandings about how relativity actually works.
"Fast, fast!" was the first thing that I thought as I read the title of the video
Same!!
Since we're talking about things potentially violating causality, shouldn't it be "!tsaf, tsaF"?
@@petersage5157 😂😂😂
"Gotta go fast!"
"Math always gives us an answer, even if our question isn't about reality." 🔥
Thanks! I'm really proud of that closing line.
You're awesome!
Isn't that the very definition of insanity?
It's common to use the Special Relativistic equation in hyperbolic form:
c²t² - x² = c²τ²
But it makes more sense to subtract the negative term from both sides to express it in Pythagorean form:
c²t² = c²τ² + x²
Divide both sides by t² to get
c² = c²τ²/t² + x²/t²
That's more relevant when discussing "speed" through 4-dimensional spacetime, because τ/t is the traveler's _rate of aging_ from the perspective of a stationary observer and x/t is the traveler's _speed through 3-dimensional space_ from the perspective of the stationary observer. From those two terms, one can deduce the traveler's speed through 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, from the perspective of the stationary observer.
The c² coefficient in the c²τ²/t² term is the conversion factor between the units of time & length, for the two "speeds" (rate of aging and speed through 3-d space). Since units are arbitrary, they could be chosen so that c=1:
c² = τ²/t² + x²/t²
It's a Pythagorean equation, where the square of a right triangle's hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the triangle's other two sides. In this case, the hypotenuse is the speed of the traveler through 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. (Minkowski spacetime has its time dimension orthogonal to each spatial dimension, which means the triangle is a right triangle.) So the square root of the left side is the traveler's speed through Minkowski spacetime, and it equals c, the same as the speed of light through 3-dimensional space. (And it equals 1 in the appropriate units of time & length.) The equation works for any kind of traveler, including light, and it presumably also works for tachyons. Everything travels at speed c through Minkowski spacetime.
The equation tells us the rate of aging of a tachyon is imaginary, the square root of a negative number. But it's unclear whether aging at an imaginary rate has a physical meaning, so it might be impossible for tachyons to exist.
On paper, them tachyons come from the opposite diagonal quadrant of the Cartesian coordinates you are using, let's put speed on x and energy on y only. Well.. Massive particles will go up to less than c, normal ones. More energy, more speed but never c.
Tachyons are the opposite. 🤔 so with our known observed reference, they are coming from infinite, lowering their energy to reach c but they can't, anyways, they can't get past c, but from the other side 🤔
How is that supposed to happen in the real world as we know it, we can't get past c from one side, tachyons can't from the other... 🤔 😞
@@misterlau5246 : I don't understand why you ask how tachyons' speed through 3-dimensional space can slow down to c. No one is saying it can.
Because their 3-d speed is always greater than c, the equation implies their rate of aging can't change from imaginary to real. And regardless of 3-d speed, the equation says everything's 4-d speed is c.
You are a good science communicator. Many people do not make the distinction between maths and reality, although maths can give the best description of what is happening or will happen, the parameters need to be correct and precise, which a lot of people fail to see.
"Imaginary" numbers do show up in real world engineering, too.
Indeed. I was a bit disappointed at the video’s conclusion, as “real” and “imaginary” numbers are just names that in the context of complex numbers do not mean what they ordinarily mean.
@@germansnowman Of course, that being said; even before the concept of complex numbers was invented, there was "math" applied to mysticism.
"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" Etc....
The current conversation about applying "math" to tachyons is not dissimilar: Take something that has never actually been observed, assign a "value" to it, and plug that into an equation which really doesn't apply to the theoretical situation.
But they all must disappear (cancel out) before you can come up with an actual real world answer to any real world question. They do not exist in reality, only as a mathematical tool - an interim placeholder essentially.
@@germansnowman I think that was a pun. In case your username fits, "What I'm trying to say" is an English expression that means that what follows is related only loosely, by metaphor or example, but not literally. He was saying "Tachyons aren't literally imaginary (meaning #1), but they're imaginary (meaning #2)"
@@chuckoneill2023 I get your point. It’s just unfortunate that the common misconception about imaginary numbers being something “less than” real numbers was perpetuated by this otherwise great video.
Hello. Such a good episode Nick. This reminded me of your earlier works, the joy, the fun and the choice of topic. Thumbs up all the way.
Thanks! This is how I plan to handle all my videos there year: enjoy them.
props for that Voyager comment .... was a good episode regardless.
Honestly, it was one of Robert Duncan McNeill's best performances on the show and the practical effects were amazing. It was just a terrible premise and it broke continuity. The _writing_ was the problem. I feel bad for everyone else who worked so hard on it.
I wonder what happened to the offspring?
@@ScienceAsylumI think they went with the idea of having a person's physical body existing at all points (at least along the line of travel)* at a given instant in time, doing wibbly wobbly timey wimey things to the subject's biology.
Having observed the consequences they decided trying to recreate this with the whole ship was a bad idea (if it wasn't already).
* They suggested that the ship could exist at every point in the universe at that instant, but glossed over that the ship's velocity was in a preferred direction so at any speed, be it infinite or plaid, it should still not reach points off to the side of the path travelled.
@@ScienceAsylum Still better than "Tuvix"
@@ScienceAsylumI still have a problem with that episode
I love the deep dive into how FTL communication with tachyons could work. Math might not always describe reality, but it's always great for the imagination!
This is an excellent layman's explanation of why FTL, time travel, etc. aren't possible in our universe. Great work!
This might be the craziest episode yet! Thank you Nick!
Trust Nick to make 'crazy' seem usual. 😆
I had a couple of good chuckles this time yeah.
I was able to follow this to the end, but not to my satisfaction as my math brain is too limited. But this is the first time I've heard this subject covered comprehensively. It's a great service you're providing.
Please keep doing the subjects YOU like!
You always make the most interesting science videos.
Thanks!
I wish you would do a video on why we cannot use entangled particles to send messages faster than light. In CZcams comments people often think we can. It would be great to be able to point them to your video. Now I have to explain to them that when we observe an entangled particle it takes on a random value, so we are just "sending" noise to the other particle. And even if we could send a signal, first you have to send many particles to a recipient at best at the speed of light.
A couple of times commenters have been confused about Hawking radiation and I've been able to simply tell them to watch Science Asylum's video on Hawking radiation.
I love the channel, makes some pretty high end stuff accessible and entertaining.
I like dabbling in the field, but so much reference material dives into the math. I like that you outline the proof, then get into the "so this is what it means". It's a rare talent.
One of my favourite expressions about theorists is: "They could calculate the square root of a jam jar, but still not know how to open it."
You sir, fly way above that,
That was a very quick 10 minutes. Excellent work.
Thanks!
Thanks for the cool stuff and Sweet Thumbnail.
been watching your videos for a long time now and this ones another favorite. always love when the space time diagram comes out :)
Reminiscent of your earlier videos. This was a great watch & I love the more obscure science stuff that you cover best.
I was hoping people would think that. (The knowledge of the earlier videos but with my current quality.)
Tacky-ons are particles that make everything IKEA products
😂🤦
Woah careful with that joke, it's an antique!
They can cause spacetime to spread out, but only near the ankles. That's where bellbottoms came from.
Tackyons are emitted by glue as it dries.
Include Lidl and Aldi
"We're not gonna talk about that episode anymore."
Good call.
Honestly, it was one of Robert Duncan McNeill's best performances on the show and the practical effects were amazing. It was just a terrible premise and it broke continuity. The _writing_ was the problem. I feel bad for everyone else who worked so hard on it.
@@ScienceAsylumYeah, that's the thing with Star Trek. You can have amazing sci-fi sometimes, and then switch to very goofy and stupid at the drop of a hat. Sometimes within the same episode. It's good on the whole, but there are some very weird missteps.
I believe this is one of your better videos. I haven't seen another Scituber cover anything quite like this, and you made it easily understood.
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'm trying something a little different this year. This video is representative of that.
I love your channel so much! ❤ I forget I am learning as I watch.
And remember, it's okay to be a little entertained! 😂
"How do you say 'causality' with feeling?" 😂😂😂😂
Thumbs up for something completely unrelated to the topic... but it was part of the video nonetheless...
The Ninja Turtles shirt ❤🙂🐢 🍕
Loving your content. Willing to think the unthinkable, and debunk so many sci-fi tropes. :)
Another very lucid video! Thanks, Nick! 🎉😊
At last someone agrees with me 🤟😝🤟Having too many imaginary friends is not crazy 🤟😝🤟
Now I'm REALLY curious about forward-time tachyons. Wouldn't it make some weird effects going over the speed of causality but still moving into the future? Would this, perhaps, give the sensation of someone distant to be "travelling in time"...? Not completely sure, tho.
Also I love your videos so much!
I believe he's done videos about FTL in the past that may answer some of those questions!
The weird thing is that, whether or not a tachyon is going forward or backward in time _depends on the relative motion of the observer._ Tachyons break physics far too much to be real.
a masterpiece of a video!!
and as always i enjoyed the space time diagrams
Thanks!
Nice episode. It always bugs me when people just arbitrary extrapolate the math transformations to get to those backward in time conclusions, so it is really refreshing to see a proper tackle at the topic.
or 'to see a proper tachyon at the topic' 😀
"Math always gives us an answer, even when our question isn't about reality."
Not unlike the Janeway quote:
"That's the problem with 'Logic', you can use it to justify anything."
That's a very good video, I never really looked that much into the math of Tachyons, so it's nice to see someone actually talk about it clearly and in detail.
I always like how visually useful you show the time-space diagrams.
It is not accidental though
I drop everything and watch your videos when I get a notification.
What if you were holding a baby?
What if you got the event before the notification?
@@robbirose7032 A small price to pay.
Drop it faster than light
My ADHD thanks you for the interspersed keyboard clone critiquing you lmfao
Thanks Nick for another great video.
I really appreciate you taking the initiative and handling all my grumpy commentary and critiques for me during the video. A gentleman and a scholar.
As usual, Nicely done.
Thanks Nick - awesome explanations as usual. And it's good to come back to reality once in a while 😄On top of that, I think I will add "They're trapped in FTL" to my daily vocabulary! 😀
Thank you, and this was awesome, despite making me sad about tachyon and crushing (only some) of my hopes and dreams regarding FTL and time travel. Really well explained and enjoyable!
You make everything seem so simple!
Thank you for making this
Thank you Nick. Now I have another video I can point to for FTL conversations.
Thank you for interesting content!
Best wishes from Lithuania!
This feels like a new style for you and I love this video
Superb, The Science Asylum, Keep It Up. 🌟 Yaaaayyy!!!! 🤗 And I’m Sultan Al-Khaldi
Love your graphics Nick thanks
The voyager reference was great! As a trekkie it made me chuckle.
We don't talk about that episode. You just killed me.🤣🤣
I can play this video x10 times.....and still be as confused as my earlier self.
Wonderful explanation!
Your final point directly mirrored a statement I made to a student today. Fantastic video
I've been subscribed for some time now.
This is the episode I told past me to subscribe for.
I'm glad past you trusted present you 👍
great vid! Keep up the good work. As a nerd who finds it easier to overcomplicate than to oversimplify, i know how tedious translating back down into more common vernacular, AND also retaining the fullness of the meaning and implications of what you are trying to say is an all-but-impossible, sucess improbable, mentally-tiring, frustratingly-tedious, emotionally-exhausting process, no all at once, not all the time, but most definitel all of them some of the time. And i must say, while ive seen varrying degrees of succes at that venture from different teachers in my life and sci-tubers on this platform, i really do believe that somehow, somewhere along the way, you noticed or discovered something in relation to redcing down your data into digestable chunks that are easy to follow, quick to comprehend, and memorable enough to retain. something 'clicked' for you in your understanding in that area to the point were your mastery of it makes most other attempts at it, even amogst youtubes more rcognizeable and more elite content creators, look like poorly practiced recently learned half uninterested attempts. i know its not as simple as what im about to say. having had my own fair share of 'click' moments where something in my understanding of a subject snaps into place suddenly and changes everthing about your perception, as well as having attempted to explain said eureka moment to others only to realize that no matter how i simplified, reorganized or prented the information, there was just some aspect or other of the porocess that i either cant explain properly or they cant grasp properly. But i wish you COULD just explain your secret or method or eureka mont that allows you to be so ghreat at how you do things.
But alas, i will settle for watching and enjoying the final product of your superior presentation skill. lol.
P.S. Just as an example of what i mean by those little click moment that change your perspective and are really really simple but almost impossible to explain to someone else, heres something for you all to debate and ponder. Did you guys realize you can choose what emotion you are feeking and or vice versa choose not to feel a negative emotion you dont want to feel? And i dont mean the whole, im sad so ill watcha comedy and feel better or something. and im not talking about the clinical psychology way slowly replacing the emotion by identifying triggers and causes and developing coping m,echanisms while using thought replacement techniques to change how you are thinking which in turn directly affects how you feel at any given moment.
No i mean like at any given second of any given day in any situation you can .... just .. well.. choose what emotion you want to feel or dont want to feel. just by choosing to. like you dont HAVE to be angry or depressed or sad or bitter. you domnt HAVE to be a prioner to your negative emotion, Your sentient conscious working mind is powerful enough to do that, in an instant, just because you want to. And im not talking no metaphysicaol mystical siritual stuff either... i do this all the time when like i get cut off in traffic and start getting frustrated or when someone is rude or disrespectful to me, or when i recognize some sort of flaw in my thought process. and i really dont know how to explain mto people who dont already undertand, theres no prepping, no delay, no minimum ir maximun time im forced or stuck in an emotional state, If i find myself in an emotional state i dislike or if i desire to be in a different emotiuonal state for whatever reason, i .. just,,, choose to, and i am,
And i can see how say, someone with a severe anger problem might be like, yeah, right, there no way its that simple, that right in the middle of seething blinding rage, where you wanna rip someone literally limb from limb while they are alive because you are so mad you wanna hear their screams as they watch the rivers of blood flow from their severed arteries and feel the tendons and joints shredding apart as the nerve fibers and muscle fibers tear and separate as the flesh reaches its maximum elasticy and finally gives way to the force of your unrelenting rage, and just choose, just like that, as easy as simply deciding to, you can become non angry, and even amiable, justy because you want to, and it then just is that way, you just suddenly feel whatever you want to and not the anger if you dont want to, and there no breathing technique, no diary analysis, no funky hippe chemicals involved, no weird witchcraftr rituals or cultic chanting, no psychological processing and no pychiatric alchemy. uyou just choose in you head with words and bam you just are something else? yeah, thats what im saying,
And those that have discovered this simple ability, mechanism, whatever you wanna call it, cause ive met others that also can just choose how they feel, its not really all THAAAAT uncommon, can vouch for what im saying here. that it really is just as simple as making a choice to feel or not feel a certain way. But anyone out there who has NOT discovered how to do this, wil swear up and down that theres no way what im saying can be accurate, that you cant just be like, "i choose not to be angry. I choose to be content, i choose to be happy, i choose to be amiable" and you just instantly arent angry anymore and are just whatever you chose. but yes. yes it really is possible, really is that simpole and i use it on an almost daily basis,
im not saying you are gonna feel like you won a million bucks, negative emotions do have negative physical effect due to hormonal release associated with them, and unless its another one of thoise click eureka moments ive never heard of as far as i know you cant for example, think a knife wound closed. or think an amputated limb into not being amputated anymore. So the physical side efects of that negative emotion will linger and you might feel that. Nor does it make logical sense to become the same level of excited or happy as say you might be when going to see a concert where your favorite artist is performing, as going from im going to kill you to ha ha im so excited can you believe it eeeeeeeee YYYAYAYYAYAYY! would not only make you look totally crazy and also be totally out of place in a situation that was at serious enough and escalated enough for you to be in an im going to kill you mood. but it would 100 percent be beneficial to you and all others involved if yoiu could say go from im gonna kill you to Im not mad at you anymore and we are able to respectfully and rationally discuss what the issue was and hopefully come tio a resolution that acoomadates all parties involved.
so yah, ponder that guys, :P
Nic, after your last short video we very glad here in South Africa you've released another amazing video.
I haven't released a CZcams Short in a while. Didn't really enjoy making them and they were taking brain power away from my longer videos.
I actually saw this before it was produced. Thank you, tachyons!
Great explanation!
Thanks!
Another excellent video, no problem regarding languages we don't have a classical type of education. Thank you!
Your English is very clear and perfect to practice my listening thanks
👍Thank you for another video filled with interesting facts. Time travel is the topic that will always be interesting no matter what.
Love that you brought up "that" episode of VOY.
This is indeed, the content I want to see on your channel:)
Glad you enjoyed it! This is the kind of stuff I want to make and it felt fantastic not worrying about how it would perform 👍. Is it ranking 10th in the last 10 videos? 1st? 7th? I don't know. I didn't check! 😃
The time travel telephone would be a great outer limits or twilightzone episode. It's a great idea.
Really cool video!
Love this channel
Great video nick! Since you’re in the topic of time travel maybe next video could be about wormholes
Great video!
I really like your videos. They are very interesting.😊
This was such a good video , thank you
Best part of this video is the low key mockery of internet trolls. Question clone has really come into his own.
Awesome video
This was an epic video! Thanks!!
I appreciate the Voyager reference, and the implied feelings contained therein
This is still my favorite science channel. One of the very few channels I don't just listen to, running in the background, but wanna direct all my attention to
(Which sadly means I can't watch right away usually 😅)
Loved this on Nebula ❤
This was a really interesting episode.
Thank you. Since college (40 yrs back) I pondered what happens if you could go slower than STOP! My intuitive idea was backward time travel… Nick’s closing point is key to many maths revelations. Just because some idea can squeeze an equation out of a maths anomaly doesn’t mean it exists in our reality. Mathematicians generate some incredible meta concepts, but it takes a physicist to keep them grounded……Another brain stretcher was what would we see if Pi was a different value than 3.14…. It took me years to understand that one (ans: it warps things into an extra dimension. In curved spacetime for example pi is a bit bigger making you take longer to approach a mass than the geometric distance would seem…in this case that extra dimension is time. Pi is only the well known of irrational number on a flat surface…space time is not flat, even near Earth.
I miss the background musics from your newer videos. They're as informative as the older ones and have the same humour, but the vibes are not the same.
Using tachyons to debunk analytic philosophy. So good.
Thanks, I’ve got all the info I need to build a time machine. See you last week.
Loving this Tachyon wave of videos I've been binging today.
Everyone's playing the algorithm smhw.
Great video as always. 🙂 Two quick comments:
7:43 "According to Past Me, the signal's velocity is negative so it never arrives". Wouldn't it actually be more like, from Past Me's reference frame, he detects that the signal was mysteriously sent from him to somewhere in his future light cone travelling toward where the satellite would be? In other words from the satellite's perspective, the signal goes from the satellite outward, and from Past Me's perspective the signal goes from his perspective outward.
Also it wasn't quite mentioned in the video, but (ignoring all the other issues with tachyons) causality wouldn't be broken by a consistent causal loop, as in Event A triggers Event B triggers Event C triggers the original Event A. Provided it's impossible to break such loops that might occur you wouldn't have a causality paradox. ("But when does the loop start or form? Really they'd simply be "there", they'd always have existed as much as anything else in space-time always existed from that perspective.)
*"Wouldn't it actually be more like, from Past Me's reference frame, he detects that the signal was mysteriously sent from him to somewhere in his future light cone traveling toward where the satellite would be?"*
Yes, that's exactly correct. Sorry I didn't make that clear in the video. I should have gone back to the graph and shown it.
*"Causality wouldn't be broken by a consistent causal loop."*
That's true only if Event A triggers Event B, but that's not what happened in this example. Event B was originally independent of Event A.
@@ScienceAsylum Event B isn't necessarily independent of Event A if you assume all events in space time "already exist". In other words it's a chicken-or-egg question, with the answer in this scenario being neither one happened "first", they both simply existed simultaneously.
@@Bodyknock *"...if you assume all events in space time 'already exist'."*
That's the block universe interpretation of relativity, which I don't subscribe to.
@@ScienceAsylum Right, I’m not saying the Block universe model is right or wrong, I’m just saying if it’s included as a possibility then it is a way around the paradox of causal loops. (P.S. If you ever do a video on the pros and cons of the Block Universe model it could be interesting!)
About the "math is a tool" thing:
Back in my freshman year in college I took the elementary mechanics class (basic physics, obligatory for all students in the Sciences division). I had to calculate maxima an minima of distance, velocity and acceleration of a simple harmonic oscillator over time, which boils down to finding the maxima and zero points of some sine and cosine. But due the phase of the problem the nearest numbers to work that out were "ugly" pi fractions like π3/4 or π5/2. But if I looked "back in time", at a negative t I had the more easier π/2 and π. I solved the problem with easier calculations (and the prof checked the question as correct), but all my classmates criticized me for using negative time "which does not exist", despite me arguing the starting point is simply arbitrary, and due the nature of the simple harmonic oscillator, all cycles of it are identical, so the time does not matter. But no, to this day I'm still know as the guy who "violated physics" to solve a harmonic oscillator.
I instantly knew what episode of Voyager that was, and yes. We should never talk about it again..
I love watching your videos, and I’m pretty good at keeping up with most of what you say… but this is WAY up above my head.
Theoretical physics just doesn’t compute.
Still, thank you for sharing.
BTW, FTL was a GREAT game! 😊
Thanks!
Warp 10 was also mentioned in TNG, not just Voyager, Riker mentioned it to Picard in an episode about time travel, don't ask me which one! Also this finally explains to me why there are two speeds at which particles are going at infinite speed, one being at the speed of light, and the other being at Warp 10.
Excellent video, really great explanations and some clever tricks too.
"Math always gives us an answer to our question." Haha, tell that to Kurt Gödel! :D
Ah! At last! Our beloved professor is back:)
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That's a "Fiddler On The Roof" reference, for you kindergarten folk out there.
Whats your poison, asks the barman.
A tachyon walks into a bar.
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"Math always gives us an answer to our question, even when our question isn't about reality" well put man, well put.
Love your video.
A question i had is what about the opposite side? I mean if time stop (almost) at the speed of light so ehat happens when the speed is zero? I mean we always reltive to ourself at zero but what if we were so slow reletive to overs that we are like the negative of speed of light?
If the speed is zero that just means the object is at rest relative to you. So your clocks tick at the same rate.
Thanks Nick and Emily. I didn't know that gluons propagate at the speed of light.
PS There goes my idea for a retropectoscope!