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    Time is something we experience every day, and it seems like something we'd be familiar with. But when you dig into it, it gets weird. So what exactly is it? And how does it work?
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    Saint Augustine, the Christian monk was once asked what is time, and his answer was, “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
    The ancient Egyptians measured time with obelisks that served as sundials, water clocks that flowed at a steady rate, and of course hourglasses.
    It was the Babylonians that first divided the day into hours made up of 60 minutes each with 60 seconds per minute, this was all the way back in 1800 BCE.
    It was the great Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens who invented the first pendulum clock in 1656, which used a weight that swung at specific intervals to keep time. This would be the most precise way to keep time for nearly 300 years.
    1927 saw the invention of the quartz crystal clock, which uses the piezoelectric properties of quartz which vibrates at a rate of 32,768 Hz, giving it an accuracy of 6 parts per million.
    But the most accurate measure of time we’ve been able to conceive so far is the atomic clock, which uses the natural resonance of a cesium atom.
    Ss the scientific revolution began to take hold, the main argument around time was had by the Absolutists and Relationalists.
    Absolutists believed in absolute time. The idea that time was an independent, absolute constant of the universe, that it wasn’t affected by our perception of it or by the interaction of matter.
    Sir Isaac Newton was one of these Absolutists.
    The Relationalists saw time as a measure of change. Basically arguing that the only reason time exists is because of the changing state of matter.
    Newton’s second law of thermodynamics states that in a closed system, entropy will always increase over time. Entropy being a movement toward a state of equilibrium.
    By the way, another really interesting way to look at entropy is through a statistical mechanics model, which was championed by Ludwig Boltzmann.
    There’s a more philosophical debate on the nature of time that has to do with how it actually progresses, between what they call tensed and tenseless theories of time.
    The tensed theory of time states that the future doesn’t exist yet, that it’s a tree with branches that spread as the now passes through the tree.
    The tenseless theory of time suggest that the past, present, and future are all equally real and what we experience as time is just the now passing down the timeline.
    Einstein stated in his 1905 paper on special relativity that the laws of physics and the speed of light must be the same for all uniformly moving observers. And for this to be true, space and time can no longer be independent. This was the only way for the speed of light to be constant for all observers.
    But it was Minkowski three years later who came up with the idea that space and time could be seen as a single four-dimensional spacetime fabric. He closed out his paper on the subject by saying, "Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality".
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  • @gingerninjafpv630
    @gingerninjafpv630 Před 5 lety +1672

    "Depression comes from living in the past, anxiety comes from living in the future and happiness comes from living right now" Joe, you blow my mind!

    • @no_alias_for_me
      @no_alias_for_me Před 5 lety +55

      Isn't that a buddhistic saying?

    • @veldafsu100
      @veldafsu100 Před 5 lety +9

      I love this theory!

    • @EcoAku
      @EcoAku Před 5 lety +47

      @@no_alias_for_me It is Buddhist, also Christian, Hindu, Zen... It's a concept shared by enlightened people all over the world, who became (for better or worse) spiritual leaders. ;)
      Nowadays, Eckhart Tolle speaks about it brilliantly in his books.

    • @stevestone76
      @stevestone76 Před 5 lety +15

      I guess that's why meditation attempts to get you to focus on the the present moment.

    • @SquirrelASMR
      @SquirrelASMR Před 5 lety +41

      I have anxiety and depression lmao.

  • @amkurian
    @amkurian Před 3 lety +316

    Video Joe Scott made in 2019 after watching Tenet in 2020

    • @falynoliver81
      @falynoliver81 Před 3 lety +17

      Underappreciated comment.

    • @GigaDanMan
      @GigaDanMan Před 3 lety +19

      I went to upvote this comment, only to discover I already had. Yet I have no recollection of doing so. 😳

    • @mikeflannery7905
      @mikeflannery7905 Před 3 lety +6

      Much more entertaining than Tenet though

    • @nickgrey6994
      @nickgrey6994 Před 3 lety +4

      BRILLIANT!!!

    • @austinwiseman3186
      @austinwiseman3186 Před 3 lety +2

      That movie still hurts my brain

  • @rivule
    @rivule Před 4 lety +119

    Joe's Main Cam: 'Yeah he has his life together. All organized.'
    Tangent Cam: 'lol you thought'

    • @iAmNovaFilms
      @iAmNovaFilms Před 3 lety +1

      I read this as this transition to a tangent cam happened in my watch through

  • @hdufort
    @hdufort Před 4 lety +139

    In high school (I was 14 years old), I actually wrote a short story about a guy trying a time machine he built. He programs a date just a few minutes in the future, and dies embedded in a mountain. My teacher didn't fully understand the reasons why this happened, so he found my story only mildly interesting and I got a good, but not excellent, grade. :(

    • @davidtatum8682
      @davidtatum8682 Před 3 lety +8

      Yea, Lotta variables involved in time travel. Everything is moving in relation to something else. Your protagonist most likely would have wound up in the vacuum of space. Not a good way to go from what I understand. A friend of a friend told me.

    • @rickreed123
      @rickreed123 Před 2 lety +5

      I always wondered what would happen if you went back in time to the instant before you jumped back in time.

    • @thewayiseeit01123
      @thewayiseeit01123 Před 2 lety +1

      How old are you now?

    • @judethaddeus9856
      @judethaddeus9856 Před rokem +3

      We don’t fully understand either because you never explained it

    • @hdufort
      @hdufort Před rokem +4

      @@thewayiseeit01123 Over 45! 😅

  • @trongborg
    @trongborg Před 5 lety +336

    This video came out just in time!
    I'll show myself out thank you...

  • @thapeloafrika6459
    @thapeloafrika6459 Před 5 lety +181

    Thank god there's a logical explanation for the random banana eating, for a second there I thought you were gonna move right along LOL

    • @clementmartinez121
      @clementmartinez121 Před 4 lety +5

      Good thing he didn't show it coming out the other end.

    • @xenan7889
      @xenan7889 Před 4 lety +8

      @@freedomcounty6736 What

    • @freedomcounty6736
      @freedomcounty6736 Před 4 lety +1

      @@xenan7889 WHAT UP!!! JAWL HURR??? BOP!!! TIME IS A LIBERAL ATHEIST CONSPIRACY!!! LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE!!! ITS ALL THEIR!!!

    • @beaubeaukitty5301
      @beaubeaukitty5301 Před 4 lety

      Gotta Love those Banana Sandwich's with Black pepper and mayonnaise. Or the Elvis Deluxe with Bacon & Honey & Peanut butter fried in a buttered pan

    • @juuk3103
      @juuk3103 Před 4 lety

      @@freedomcounty6736 Republicans have such amazing intelligence, stop flexing your chromosomes man

  • @Blalack77
    @Blalack77 Před 4 lety +74

    "If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I try to explain it to he who asks, I don't know"... I feel like that about a lot of things.

    • @YourMom-yw9rk
      @YourMom-yw9rk Před 3 lety

      Grandpa told my dad and he told me. It doesn’t matter what you know if you can’t communicate it to someone else. Not sure I agree but hey that’s what you think when you write procedures for a living 😂😂

    • @Blalack77
      @Blalack77 Před 3 lety +2

      @@YourMom-yw9rk I've heard that exact same thing quite a bit too. I think it was one of my friend's dads and he said "If you can't explain it to a little kid, then you don't really understand it"... My friend is in the process of becoming a middle school teacher - that might be part of the reason.

    • @toddtrojek6521
      @toddtrojek6521 Před rokem

      I don’t have time this stuff!

  • @Highlander760
    @Highlander760 Před 3 lety +15

    Seems very much like what they showed in "Tenet".
    Your ahead of your time Joe!

  • @heisag
    @heisag Před 5 lety +97

    I suppose i kinda belong in the tenseless theory group, that time sorta don't exist. However, since
    i am paid by the hour, i usually keep quiet about it.

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před 5 lety +1

      Have you read any of Julian Barbour's claims on time?
      Or Lee Smolin's?

    • @TomTomTom9146
      @TomTomTom9146 Před 5 lety +1

      Same here, apart the paying part, I'm 16 and don't have a job yet but I still think in that way and didn't know that there's a group called the tenseless, thanks!

  • @realitycheck3363
    @realitycheck3363 Před 5 lety +194

    "Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.'" - Ray Cummings 1922

    • @TH-xo4zx
      @TH-xo4zx Před 5 lety +10

      Heheheh.. Cummings..

    • @realitycheck3363
      @realitycheck3363 Před 5 lety +3

      @@TH-xo4zx Not just Cummings. Ray Cummings. He was probably a storm trooper or something.

    • @NeorecnamorceN
      @NeorecnamorceN Před 5 lety +7

      Who says everything isn't happening all at once but we just perceive it as linear...🤯

    • @lordk.gaimiz6881
      @lordk.gaimiz6881 Před 5 lety

      Wow

    • @travischance5332
      @travischance5332 Před 5 lety

      @@NeorecnamorceN Life inside a singularity, seeing itself as the result of a big bang.

  • @jonigomez7250
    @jonigomez7250 Před 4 lety +14

    My mind easily wanders around and I struggle with anxiety... You help me to stay in the present. You do this by always giving me something interesting to think about right this second and it's more helpful than you can imagine and because you are interesting in the way that you are, you manage to keep my attention throughout the video, I don't even mind when you plug your t-shirts. Just I guess, thank you, all around for all the great information and for being something that can keep me from going crazy!

  • @colemanwalsh7477
    @colemanwalsh7477 Před 3 lety +3

    "Depressions is living in the past and anxiety is living in the future" those are words of philosophical wisdom that are so true and an underrated statement in my eyes.

  • @mrman5517
    @mrman5517 Před 5 lety +250

    i saw this video pop up, and thought to myself "it's about time!"

  • @BenSullinsOfficial
    @BenSullinsOfficial Před 5 lety +829

    What do we want? TIME TRAVEL!
    When do we want it? IT'S IRRELEVANT!

    • @retluoc
      @retluoc Před 5 lety +8

      HA! Good one!

    • @Aerospace_Gaming
      @Aerospace_Gaming Před 5 lety +3

      Nice one

    • @ytnoname1189
      @ytnoname1189 Před 5 lety +36

      Where do we want it? THAT'S A COMPLICATED QUESTION WITH A LOT OF MATH INVOLVED

    • @lukes2219
      @lukes2219 Před 4 lety

      Teslanomics with Ben Sullins I remember seeing this on redit the day I first went on it

    • @lordodysseus
      @lordodysseus Před 4 lety +4

      This joke was the only good thing in Terminator Genisys.

  • @foexsnake
    @foexsnake Před 3 lety +7

    Wow, I have got to say that this video has really impacted me. I stumbled upon it while looking through my recommended and near the end where you said depression comes from living in the past and anxiety comes from living in the future where as happiness comes from living in the now really clicked for me. Thank you so much man and keep up your amazing work

  • @eelooplanitia6640
    @eelooplanitia6640 Před 4 lety +19

    I love how he's just *extruding* banana.

  • @napadave58
    @napadave58 Před 4 lety +91

    "Daddy ... Where do bananas come from?”
    ‘Er ... Joe Scott’s mouth.'

  • @one-of-us9939
    @one-of-us9939 Před 5 lety +269

    Unless someone can prove me wrong:
    Time was invented by people who charge interest.

  • @robertduncan8801
    @robertduncan8801 Před 4 lety +7

    Thank you! You're the only person I've ever heard have that evaluation of time travel and physical displacement. :D

    • @imac1957
      @imac1957 Před 4 lety

      It does give on explanation as to why we have not seen time travellers from the future yet. They keep missing.

  • @petroc62
    @petroc62 Před 3 lety +3

    Anybody else see that scene from Spaceballs playing in their mind while Joe was talking??
    "When will then be now?"
    "Soon..."

  • @Witnessdomaining
    @Witnessdomaining Před 5 lety +116

    You ate a banana, then an ananab ate you.

  • @davidbjacobs3598
    @davidbjacobs3598 Před 5 lety +113

    "Ironically by the time you've even processed that very moment, it's already in the past."
    Joke's on you - I paused the video!!

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Před 5 lety +13

      It's still in the past as pausing the video, doesn't pause time. You're actually resuming your percieved reality of the now, as you pause the video, since the recording of Joe in the video, is just that. A recording. It's showing a Joe of the past and not of the present. As you're watching the video, your mind percieves that past as the now, as you are still in the now, but the video remains of the past. You'll first realize the awakening of that past as the video ends and you fully resume your percieved reality of the now.

    • @davidbjacobs3598
      @davidbjacobs3598 Před 5 lety +3

      ​@@Arterexius Eh, I feel like this comment is in the past. Never look back, it distracts from the now.

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Před 5 lety +1

      @@davidbjacobs3598 Haha, well it truly is in the past, but how will you learn in the now, if you never look back?

    • @davidbjacobs3598
      @davidbjacobs3598 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Arterexius I make exceptions for Incredibles quotes. That should be enough.

    • @thenewtalkerguy496
      @thenewtalkerguy496 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Arterexius whoooosh

  • @spacepopeXIV
    @spacepopeXIV Před 2 lety

    Yes, yes, YES! I started watching your videos again after a while of not watching them, hoping to get that awesome sense of learning about an idea or concept that absolutely blows my mind, and will permanently stick with me forever and thus forever change my perspective about the world around me.
    This video absolutely helped me get my fix, especially that idea of the universe stretching being what we perceive as the movement of time. That is insane because it makes so much sense.

  • @Hyraethian
    @Hyraethian Před 4 lety +14

    9:20
    just remember that your standing, on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. Its orbiting its reckoned 90 miles every second, the sun that is the source of all our power; And the sun, and you, and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miiiiles a daaaay, in an outer spiral arm, at 40 thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the milky way!

  • @jameswhitman3934
    @jameswhitman3934 Před 5 lety +75

    I'm so glad I watched this rather than just listening to it like I normally do.

    • @anavrin5245
      @anavrin5245 Před 4 lety +2

      Lmao same he’s hilariously good

    • @mundusuys8739
      @mundusuys8739 Před 4 lety +2

      I'm glad the banana escaped certain demise.

  • @davidhuber6251
    @davidhuber6251 Před 5 lety +9

    Not finishing the banana bothered me more than it should have.
    Great video.

    • @LisaBowers
      @LisaBowers Před 5 lety

      Yeah, but since that scene was filmed in one take, I'd say that wasn't the _only_ banana he ate. If he had to do several takes, then he was probably full up to his neck with bananas and couldn't stomach that last bite.
      _Ooor,_ he got it right the first time and he hates finishing bananas. 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @jasonplant5432
    @jasonplant5432 Před 3 lety +1

    Joe you are simply genius!
    I really liked the backwards video and how you're hand gestures were so almost on que and definitely appropriate.
    So good.

  • @zackmano
    @zackmano Před 4 lety +8

    Miller's equation: T=KoS×F
    Time keeps on slippin into the future... ✌💙

  • @s1ashii733
    @s1ashii733 Před 5 lety +29

    Joe: *peels a banana *
    Me: Is this science related?

    • @emilandersenaudio
      @emilandersenaudio Před 5 lety

      hahaha yess!!

    • @AngelProductions777
      @AngelProductions777 Před 4 lety

      Idk but it might be bc bananas produce anti matter

    • @imdawolfman2698
      @imdawolfman2698 Před 4 lety

      Can it really be that in 7 months nobody realized that eating the banana was the tease he mentioned at the beginning of the video that he had never done before. ✲´*。.❄¨¯`*✲。❄。*。(๏̯͡๏) *✲´*。.❄¨¯`*✲。❄。*。¨¯`*✲

  • @fernandocabette6050
    @fernandocabette6050 Před 5 lety +39

    You can time travel to the future by moving slowly too. The less i do each day, the more days blur together and woosh, a week went by and i did nothing useful...again...

    • @davidtatum8682
      @davidtatum8682 Před 3 lety +1

      Yea, I have to will myself to take a piss. My life is a dumpster fire.

  • @mikiasg8867
    @mikiasg8867 Před 4 lety +1

    14:22 That spoke to me brother.
    Words to live by!!

  • @gerryrodriguez3025
    @gerryrodriguez3025 Před 2 lety

    Didn't know Joe Scott quoting Lao Tzu
    "If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are happy you are living in the present..."
    Is something i needed right now.
    Thanks Joe...

  • @therocinante3443
    @therocinante3443 Před 5 lety +76

    I've got to try and explain this to my boss... "I'm not REALLY an hour late boss!"

    • @integrazimmy
      @integrazimmy Před 5 lety +3

      This is the real reason why moms say don't talk with your mouth full... You might go back in time and end up at the center of Earth's core. 🤣

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Před 5 lety +8

      Bosses get very anti-philosophical when you try this.

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před 5 lety +1

      Thoughts on if entropy can be a reliable measure of time?
      It seems to just 'measure information backward'.

    • @nephicus339
      @nephicus339 Před 5 lety +1

      @@joescott yes. yes they do.

    • @OdariArt
      @OdariArt Před 5 lety +1

      Dude that's too funny. Totally something I would do.

  • @uptown3636
    @uptown3636 Před 5 lety +47

    That banana thing in reverse was trippy. As Joe "unchewed" the banana into bigger and bigger bits, the banana reassembled itself into a whole bite, at which point Joe spat it back onto the whole banana, which resorbed it. Such is the pervasiveness of entropy that it is mentally uncomfortable just to watch it run in reverse.

    • @thenewtalkerguy496
      @thenewtalkerguy496 Před 4 lety +1

      Perhaps. But I think you may be generalizing a little too much. Perhaps your incomfortability has more to do with watching someone spit up food than it has to do with entropy.
      I mean... crapping out food is following the laws of entropy too, would it make you uncomfortable to watch someone else do it? But I think I'd be perfectly comfortable watching an egg be unfried, so I dont think "entropy" is the deciding factor about what is "comfortable to watch" here.

  • @robynsmith4164
    @robynsmith4164 Před 2 lety +1

    January 19, 2022 - Joe, I just watched and enjoyed you talking to me about 2.5 years ago! I’ve watched MOST of your videos and have to keep going to the past to enjoy more of your videos in my future! You are right, time IS hard to understand 😁

  • @lancheloth
    @lancheloth Před 4 lety

    Hi Joe, I watching this and the rest of your video with my son... We share the revelations and the headaches... Thank you for giving me the means to spend time with my son and connect with him... Love your works..

  • @azizrobinson1515
    @azizrobinson1515 Před 5 lety +11

    Brilliant point raised on how when you travel back in time, you need to also travel back in space. Awesome explanation!

    • @greezooo
      @greezooo Před 5 lety

      🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

    • @antonystringfellow5152
      @antonystringfellow5152 Před 4 lety

      I realized that one myself on hearing about a guy who claims he traveled back in time decades, as part of some military project.
      After just a few seconds wondering if that might be in some way possible, I realized how ridiculous this claim was. He' would have quickly died, in deep space, billions of miles away from Earth, in a part of space where the Earth would only arrive decades later.

  • @adilator
    @adilator Před 5 lety +202

    What is Time?
    Baby don't hurt me...
    Don't hurt me...
    No more.

    • @resistanceisfutile520
      @resistanceisfutile520 Před 5 lety

      Reminds me of that scene in black panther

    • @mildlifeisatrisk5727
      @mildlifeisatrisk5727 Před 5 lety +6

      Damn, I came here (too late) to write the very exact same thing! 😅 Guess Time just hurt me again 😄

    • @nephicus339
      @nephicus339 Před 5 lety

      i only wish they let Andy Serkis do a full cover of that song in Black Panther.

    • @Mike504
      @Mike504 Před 5 lety +2

      Wait a minute, did you just grab my ass?

    • @lizahasbeenhere.836
      @lizahasbeenhere.836 Před 5 lety +1

      Lol love it ....

  • @csos636
    @csos636 Před 4 lety

    Love that quote u said there... about depression and anxiety... perfect

  • @lauriethomasmd3760
    @lauriethomasmd3760 Před 4 lety

    I so agree with you that we experience time as a proportion of our lives. This gives me comfort when I hear about the death of a child. To that child, they lived a lifetime.

  • @sibel2209
    @sibel2209 Před 5 lety +37

    heck yeah, time to have an existential crisis before bed!

  • @pairot01
    @pairot01 Před 5 lety +126

    Yesterday Joe: No one thinks about the people in 200 years!!
    Today Joe: The only time that matters is right now
    :P

    • @PhilthySteel
      @PhilthySteel Před 5 lety

      Beautiful

    • @MIck-M
      @MIck-M Před 5 lety

      I got smug poisoning off that apology to the future thing. Dropped in to see if it was going to be a continuing trend and am glad to see this one is a bit more... watchable.

    • @LegionOfWeirdos
      @LegionOfWeirdos Před 5 lety

      It's like he's about to do an inspirational TED talk.

    • @davidbjacobs3598
      @davidbjacobs3598 Před 5 lety

      Yesterday Joe doesn't matter. You know what comes from living in the past? Depression!

    • @alalalala57
      @alalalala57 Před 5 lety +1

      @@MIck-M We get it, you don't care about the future.

  • @seltelle3429
    @seltelle3429 Před 4 lety

    ❤️ You always keep me learning and laughing at the same time

  • @thugTaters
    @thugTaters Před 4 lety +1

    Tenseless time theory finally put together what I've always thought in my head. I knew somewhere out there someone had that idea and it had to be online but for the life of me I couldn't figure out what to Google. In my brain (which, admittedly, doesnt know much about the topic) it makes the most sense.

  • @dvdemon187
    @dvdemon187 Před 5 lety +17

    13:30 Thank you, for making this point. I can't exactly remember, at what point in my life I realized this fact, but it was really enlightening. Simple and logical. I also noticed, that not many people realize this simple fact and I'm always thrilled, when someone explains it.

  • @guitarguru.3572
    @guitarguru.3572 Před 4 lety +11

    I’m absolutely loving your videos. I’ve been sending several links to my son. He’s only 12, but he’s incredibly eager to learn about higher-level topics, such as relativity. I really appreciate that you cover complex topics without coming across as pretentious or boring, and you have an ability to explain things that pretty much anyone that’s paying attention can understand. You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir. Thank you.

    • @bigsteve1664
      @bigsteve1664 Před rokem +3

      You've definitely raised your son well. Hope he's still fascinated by learning. I hated school and learning stuff I wasn't interested in in general. Never done any homework or revision for exams etc. Luckily for me I could retain what I was taught in class to a decent extent so when it came for final exams I scraped by with B's and C's which I was happy with. It's only been since I turned 23ish that I started to study science for the fun and joy of learning for the sake of it. I wonder sometimes with regret if I actually had this thirst for knowledge during my school years, whether I could have done better, went to university, and been in a different line of work. I'm a network engineer, which is still a good job, but always get those 'what if' moments. Sorry for my life story lol.

  • @ryanhasza5882
    @ryanhasza5882 Před 3 lety

    Loved your banana reverse, and the time slipping reference... Lol,.. Awesome

  • @konstanstinostzavaras1983

    Thank you for sharing Joe it was an excellent informative video

  • @janhemstad
    @janhemstad Před 5 lety +109

    The thing we've never seen Joe do before: eat a banana and then vomit it back together. 🍌

    • @maxnullifidian
      @maxnullifidian Před 5 lety

      Yeah, I was wondering why he was eating a banana, and figured he was going to eat it in reverse. I anticipated the future past!

    • @stvp68
      @stvp68 Před 5 lety +1

      Jan Hemstad Ah, THAT’s why the video didn’t match the audio!

    • @osgiliath4
      @osgiliath4 Před 5 lety +1

      @@stvp68 I think it did though

    • @whosscruffylookin95
      @whosscruffylookin95 Před 5 lety

      Joe please never do this again XD

    • @Lowlander-ci7is
      @Lowlander-ci7is Před 5 lety +1

      Am I a bad person if it turned me on? 😎

  • @jonbresler3295
    @jonbresler3295 Před 5 lety +26

    You're older than you've ever been.
    And now you're even older.
    And now you're even older.
    And now you're even older.
    You're older than you've ever been.
    And now you're even older.
    And now you're older still.
    - They Might Be Giants

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Před 5 lety +1

      Not to put too fine a point on it...

    • @TheSuzberry
      @TheSuzberry Před 5 lety +1

      I am older than I ever intended to be.

    • @liquidminds
      @liquidminds Před 5 lety

      I read your comment from Bottom to top... Still checks out.

    • @nozack5612
      @nozack5612 Před 5 lety

      And younger than you shall ever be.

    • @bobbailey4954
      @bobbailey4954 Před 4 lety

      No kidding

  • @karlesmcquade2863
    @karlesmcquade2863 Před 4 lety

    Wow. Nicely done! This video is not just an insightful exposition on the nature of time, it's also an artistically meaningful illustration. Bravo.

  • @DEADisBEAUTIFUL
    @DEADisBEAUTIFUL Před 3 lety

    We also time travel every time we sleep. You fall asleep “now” and wake up “now” with no feeling of time having passed.

  • @JamFilledDonut
    @JamFilledDonut Před 5 lety +68

    I don't think Newton had anything to do with the second law of thermodynamics

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Před 5 lety +22

      Yes, Carnot should have been credited.

    • @JamFilledDonut
      @JamFilledDonut Před 5 lety

      @@joescott Cool thanks for the response!

    • @uremawifenowdave
      @uremawifenowdave Před 5 lety +2

      Joe Scott I would say that Carnot laid the foundations for the second law. Carnot’s theorem was concerned with the maximum efficiency of any possible engine, but was theorised at a time when the obsolete caloric theory of heat (where heat was seen as a fluid moving from hot to cold bodies) was still being considered seriously. Carnot’s theorem (1824) came long before the first law of thermodynamics had been defined by Clausius in 1850. Clausius and Kelvin then went on to define their respective statements of the second law; Clausius’ Statement being defined in 1854 and Kelvin’s Statement being defined in 1851.

    • @seanhannagans
      @seanhannagans Před 5 lety +4

      To be fair, he did have a second law... . But the second law of thermodynamics is: "You don't talk about thermodynamics" - Tyler Durden.

    • @marekkaletka6746
      @marekkaletka6746 Před 5 lety +1

      Tell this to atoms, once constituting Newtons body.

  • @Jorgant4
    @Jorgant4 Před 5 lety +74

    Loved the video as always, but... Mouth sounds from the banana...*shudders*

    • @balthazarfitzpatrick7770
      @balthazarfitzpatrick7770 Před 5 lety +5

      Yeah that was a bit of a gamble. If it wasn't Joe I would have jumped ship a second before the first bite.

    • @cawfeedawg
      @cawfeedawg Před 5 lety +2

      weirdo

    • @matthewmax
      @matthewmax Před 5 lety +3

      Yea. I couldn’t make it through.

    • @thatguycarlos
      @thatguycarlos Před 5 lety +2

      Yup. Gross. 🤮

    • @davidcunningham6177
      @davidcunningham6177 Před 5 lety +2

      I stuck with it as I assumed he was doing it for a reason...because why else would the dude be eating a banana while talking and making a video?!

  • @kats9755
    @kats9755 Před rokem

    Joe: The heart beats at an average of 70 beats per minute.
    Me, whose resting heart rate registers as a panic attack: *confused Scooby-Doo noise*

  • @lix8888
    @lix8888 Před 4 lety

    I had a good time watching this. thank you

  • @evilben3810
    @evilben3810 Před 5 lety +9

    the banana bit reminded me of the red dwarf episode "Backwards"!

  • @pwnmclovin1
    @pwnmclovin1 Před 4 lety +63

    "There is a saying; Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." -Oogway, the humble turtle from Kung Fu Panda

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Před 3 lety +2

      Works only in English.

    • @scottyb616
      @scottyb616 Před 3 lety +9

      There is also a saying "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The close you get to the end, the faster it goes." - my 7th grade science teacher.

    • @bartrigby2795
      @bartrigby2795 Před 3 lety

      You quoted a f**king cartoon get f**king real

    • @miguelpereira9859
      @miguelpereira9859 Před 3 lety

      @Allison VP That is correct but it's spelled "presente"

  • @nikolo98
    @nikolo98 Před 3 lety

    The final part about living in the perpetual moment is one of the smartest things I’ve heard. Great way of putting it!

  • @jamessharier7529
    @jamessharier7529 Před rokem

    The banana skit was awesome and proves why the here and now is truly the only time travel we experience

  • @kms1011
    @kms1011 Před 5 lety +24

    "Depression comes from living in the past, anxiety comes from living in tge future, and happiness comes from living now"
    Well What the fuck’s my brain doing when i’ve been dealing with depression and anxiety for years.
    My brain’s an overachiever

  • @artificernathaniel3287
    @artificernathaniel3287 Před 5 lety +22

    "Hey yall, Texan Vsauce here!"
    Your intro reminded me of their intros they used to do.

    • @jch8175
      @jch8175 Před 5 lety

      Nathaniel Pool when did he say taht

  • @itza22veveritza
    @itza22veveritza Před 4 lety

    Love your videos,Joe!!!👏👏👏👍🏻

  • @Rizzless02
    @Rizzless02 Před 4 lety +1

    Soon as he got a banana out I instantly paused the video went to the kitchen and got a banana.

  • @MarkAhlquist
    @MarkAhlquist Před 5 lety +4

    My favorite: Time keeps everything from happening at once!

  • @pete2861
    @pete2861 Před 5 lety +12

    Thank you for bringing up the problem of traveling in time and the planet not being there. This has been one of my big issues with the concept of time travel, you need to travel in space as well as in time. Explained nicely. ;)

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 Před 5 lety

      Yeah, except it wouldn't really work the way he says either because there is no universal reference frame. The surface of the Earth moves with respect to the core, the Earth as a whole moves with respect to the sun, the sun moves with respect to the galaxy, the galaxy moves with respect to the local group, the local group moves with respect to the Virgo Supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster moves with respect to the Laniakea Supercluster, the Laniakea Supercluster moves with respect to the CMB, the CMB moves with respect to everything outside the observable universe...
      There's no way to pick where that chain ends, so saying you'd end up somewhere else isn't actually any more accurate than saying you wouldn't move at all. It would really depend on how your time machine worked, if it worked at all.

    • @pete2861
      @pete2861 Před 5 lety +1

      @@danieljensen2626 I think we are saying the same thing. You would (in my mind) travel in time but remain 'local' in space. So the earth wouldn't be where you are.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 Před 5 lety

      @@pete2861 But local doesn't mean anything. Your time machine being tied to a specific location on Earth honestly makes more sense than it being tied to the sun or the center of the universe or something. But again, it all depends on how your time machine works.

    • @pete2861
      @pete2861 Před 5 lety

      @@danieljensen2626 'local' meaning you are not moving through space-time. the earth is moving through space-time. So when you time travel, if it were possible, you are not traveling through space, you are only traveling through time. So local means some specific non-changing position in space-time, not a geographical location on a body moving through it.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 Před 5 lety

      @@pete2861 That's the problem though, there's no such thing. Motion is relative, everything is both moving and not moving. If you're thinking of positions in space as a point on a graph with coordinates, stop doing that because it's impossible. You say that the Earth is moving through space-time, but that's a meaningless statement because you haven't specified what it's moving relative to. The Earth isn't moving at all relative to itself, and it isn't moving at all relative to us (unless of course you're driving or walking or something).
      There are no such things as universal fixed points in Space-time that travel only in time and not in space, it depends on your reference frame. And no reference frame is better than any other. If your reference frame is Earth, you'd stay on the Earth. If it's the sun, yes you'd be ahead or behind the Earth in it's orbit. But your reference frame could just as well be any cosmic ray shooting past the Earth, in which case you'd fly off in a random direction. Or your reference frame could be Elon's Roadster from the Falcon Heavy Launch.
      If you're thinking "well the Sun in the correct reference frame", stop thinking that, because it isn't. There's no such thing as a "correct" or "incorrect" reference frame. They're all equally valid.

  • @ronschlorff7089
    @ronschlorff7089 Před 3 lety +1

    In "the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" Ford Prefect said to Arthur Dent: "Time is an illusion; lunch-time doubly so!" I'm sticking with that explanation,..... at least for the next few years!! ;D

  • @evanfaustin5744
    @evanfaustin5744 Před 3 lety

    i love this guy
    he makes me feel like a big brain bc i can understand half of the science stuff he says
    thanks joe!

  • @willyamramos1957
    @willyamramos1957 Před 5 lety +6

    Who need Vsauce when we have Joe Scott.
    This was amazing dude, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

  • @JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy
    @JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy Před 5 lety +12

    In Quantum Leap - Sam could only jump back in time within his own lifetime.

  • @krisscecil
    @krisscecil Před 4 lety

    It's so nice to hear a person who takes an example, an illustration, etc, and unpacks it into the real world. It takes a vivid imagination within the confines of Reason to do so effectively. As my name suggests, I'm a Christian preacher. Your point regarding ACTUAL time travel necessitating the involvement of radical space travel as well brought back some favorite memories! Instances when I tried to convey the radical implications of the following statement written by a man, John the apostle, who claimed to be an eyewitness to the event:
    "The sea [of Galilee] became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going."
    John 6:18-‬21
    Everyone gets caught up in walking on water. Please don't misunderstand. That was still an amazing feat, impossible using any means of their time. But you and I have seen people walk. We've also seen the surface of a lake or ocean. Is it that difficult to juxtapose the two to imagine what that would KIND OF look like? The other feat is far more subtle, quite unassuming as mere words on a page, almost too simple allowing the reader to miss it over and over again.
    1. The Sea of Galilee is about 8 miles at its widest, and 13 miles at its longest. The distance between the cities mentioned in the section (Tiberias and Capernaum) is about 6 miles; just over 5 if the starting point was north of Tiberias on the shore by the mountain.
    2. The writer and many of the men on the boat were fishermen. Of that very sea. They knew exactly how far they had traveled, and how far they still had to go. Even if they had gone over half the distance, they still would've at least had a mile, if not two, still to go to reach shore.
    3. The word translated "immediately" is in almost every instance in the New Testament rendered "immediately." If John had meant to say something like, "The trip then became 'super easy, barely an inconvenience,'" the Greek language can handle it.
    So if John's account actually occurred, not only did Jesus teleport himself, he teleported the people on the ship, AND the ship! This was done instantaneously rather than creepy tunnel Willy Wonka style. So instantaneously, in fact, the only thing perceptible to John was the change in surroundings, not the boat lurching or anything.
    For a few minutes, I tried to start calculating the cosmic distance he would've traveled over the given time, meaning he would've also had to compensate for different velocity at their destination. Then I realized the vectors wouldn't have changed at all, and if they did, it would've been infinitesimal, even locally, due to the word "immediately."
    "But that means He didn't travel through Time!" First off, you're correct. But realize what it does mean! Much like the episode "Stasis" in Tales from the Loop, he either stopped Time allowing the ship to travel in an instant, or he shortened the space between two spots. Or both. He controlled spacetime.
    Notice his words in John 8:58, after which they try to kill him for claiming to be God: "Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
    I love asking people what that means. Invariably: "Before Abraham was, Jesus was."
    Nope. You got the tenses, the contexts of Time wrong.
    Before Abraham existed in the past, Jesus EXISTS in the PRESENT.
    Moving a boat, or foretelling future events, or healing people from miles away are CRAZY easy for a being that IS everyWHERE and everyWHEN. All at the same time. Sounds like something 4+dimensional entering our meager 3rd dimension as we're propelled by that 4th dimension ourselves. We're in the lazy river of Time. Jesus created the river, and then got it moving.
    Great video, Joe! Had me brainstorming ALL DAY! 👍

  • @alexanderoweka9716
    @alexanderoweka9716 Před 3 lety

    This video is a time trip, and I'm so high right now, it's amazing!

  • @hareecionelson5875
    @hareecionelson5875 Před 5 lety +10

    The past is history, the future is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why we call it the present. ~ Master Oogway

  • @ERROR_-_404
    @ERROR_-_404 Před 5 lety +10

    The banana improved the talk about teleportation a lot.

    • @Diggnuts
      @Diggnuts Před 5 lety

      It helped with scale..

  • @Actionray
    @Actionray Před 3 lety

    Dude when you pulled out that banana i lost my shit lmfao so funny

  • @Krakology
    @Krakology Před 3 lety

    i have had the same argument, if i go back in time, the earth wasn't there. nice to see others on the same path of logic

  • @2010kevinsmith
    @2010kevinsmith Před 5 lety +49

    “Now” is a gift. That’s why we call it the “present” :-)

  • @josephvalvano829
    @josephvalvano829 Před 5 lety +18

    You consistently expand the minds of all your viewership. Kudos!

  • @Dragonspun
    @Dragonspun Před 2 lety

    You really pulled off that banana part extremely well. What you were saying matched up with your movements so perfectly. As long as I didn't look at your mouth moving (or the banana), I'd probably have been convinced there was nothing amiss. Well done. :)

  • @kenaujak
    @kenaujak Před 3 lety

    The perfect video for 3 am existentialism. Glad I found this.

  • @ichibanalpha
    @ichibanalpha Před 5 lety +12

    9:10
    But in steins gate they address this and come up with a solution of locking the time machine to the gravitational field of the earth, or something. So theres that.

    • @BlakeRyanFilm
      @BlakeRyanFilm Před 4 lety +1

      ichibanalpha I’ve never seen that concept published anywhere but that is exactly what I’ve theorized as the only possibility to hold some relative positioning to the Earth.
      Though, I still would count in the spinning and tilt of the Earth which (if slipping between spacetime via wormhole) would most likely drop you either higher or lower in elevation from where you began oppose to where you reappeared.

  • @Bran-don321
    @Bran-don321 Před 5 lety +7

    Outstanding! This was one of my favorite videos. You did a terrific job explaining and portraying a theory of time travel. Great job sir

  • @TygreKitty
    @TygreKitty Před 2 lety

    Great explanation

  • @AirfoilOne
    @AirfoilOne Před 10 měsíci

    by far, my favorite episode Joe.. why did it take 4 years for me to find it? ;)

  • @Mike504
    @Mike504 Před 5 lety +3

    If the present matters. And I'm watching Joe now. That means Joe matters.

  • @Mr72Dolphins
    @Mr72Dolphins Před 5 lety +12

    I saw Interstellar, and no thank you. I don't want Matthew M. living in my bookshelf!

    • @LisaBowers
      @LisaBowers Před 5 lety +3

      Just imagine hearing _"Alright, alright, alright"_ coming from your bookshelf in the middle of the night. 😬

    • @Mr72Dolphins
      @Mr72Dolphins Před 5 lety +1

      @@LisaBowers Failure to launch, indeed

    • @brainmind4070
      @brainmind4070 Před 5 lety +2

      Murph!

  • @smellthel
    @smellthel Před 3 lety +1

    I think we exist at all times simultaneously but we feel like time is passing in one way because from our perspective things forward in time didn’t happen yet

  • @katherineharper-sj4ys
    @katherineharper-sj4ys Před měsícem

    The banana example was a great idea. I wondered what the heck you were doing that for.

  • @sumitkapoor5188
    @sumitkapoor5188 Před 5 lety +5

    I really love your channel.. I have seen all your videos and i even re-watch them all the time

    • @UATU.
      @UATU. Před 5 lety

      Sumit Kapoor ditto!

  • @HighFlyActionGuy
    @HighFlyActionGuy Před 5 lety +33

    How many times did you draw up that time reversal scene before you decided on the banana?

    • @battlefieldcustoms873
      @battlefieldcustoms873 Před 5 lety +1

      HighFlyActionGuy ded lololol

    • @HighFlyActionGuy
      @HighFlyActionGuy Před 5 lety +2

      @҉ I think it was clutch. Without using a prop it would have been harder to see and understand exactly what he meant as time moved backward.

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Před 5 lety

      @҉ Most people do. Take a stroll through your city and look at people dining in the local cafés. Most of them are talking and eating on the same time. The eating part is merely because it would be a great thing to do while hanging out.

  • @brandonespenhain6013
    @brandonespenhain6013 Před 4 lety +1

    Love you Joe. Keep on rockin in the free world :)

  • @ssgyates
    @ssgyates Před 4 lety

    Love your closing

  • @6stringsbrainfingers
    @6stringsbrainfingers Před 4 lety +14

    Just found your channel the other day Joe. Subbed and love it!

  • @BrokenNotDead
    @BrokenNotDead Před 5 lety +5

    Finally someone spoke about the issue with us going through space on time travel

  • @bethanysloan
    @bethanysloan Před 3 lety

    I've been enjoying your videos! Please keep it up. Just the right mix of geek and humor. Maybe your next one could be on misophonia. :)

  • @DragonsinGenesisPodcast

    I have an app on my phone that allows for time travel. I set the time I wish to arrive, lie back in my hammock, and suddenly there's a loud noise from my phone and I'm several hours into the future.

  • @quattordicimontenapoleone3113

    "It's almost impossible." Well, the Time Lords are very clever!

    • @stevetoth7136
      @stevetoth7136 Před 4 lety

      TENET the movie by Chris Nolan seems the backwards theoru

  • @miguelangelriveiro
    @miguelangelriveiro Před 5 lety +4

    Does the banana help you to "slip" in time??? ... maybe only when it is on the floor...
    Thanks for another fantastic video!

  • @andrewedis9907
    @andrewedis9907 Před 4 lety

    The distance thing in time travel has always bugged me too. I'm happy to see im not the only one!

  • @scottyb616
    @scottyb616 Před 3 lety

    the BEST quest I remember from my middle school science teacher was "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The close you get to the end, the faster it goes."