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What Actually Are Space And Time?

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Use code HISTORY16 for up to 16 FREE MEALS + 3 Surprise Gifts across 7 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3Rkknac ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you like this video, check out writer Geraint Lewis´ excellent book, co-written with Chris Ferrie: Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos https://www.amazon.com/Where-Universe-Other-Cosmic-Questions/dp/1728238811 AND check out his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlasLewisAndBarnes Incredible thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza, the GOAT: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en Art created by soso112429, and Joe from History Dose: www.youtube.com/historydose Thanks to Alexander Long for speculative fiction suggestions. Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist. Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid, images of galaxies from NASA and ESO/Hubble. Image Credits: Steam engine Tfme, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Caesium Clock By Binarysequence - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24592511 Arecibo By Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81583884 World line By Cyp - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=283995 Roger Penrose By Cirone-Musi, Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19318743 Wormhole By MikeRun - Own work, using Wurmloch (Wormhole) by MrFreakmanis (CC BY-SA 3.0) (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:190022), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100253460 Dirac Plaque By Nightryder84 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15872966 Spacetime Cone By SVG version: K. Aainsqatsi at en.wikipedia Original PNG version: Stib at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. (Original text: self-made), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2210907 00:00 Introduction 04:59 What Is Space? 14:45 What Is Time? 25:26 New Space 44:16 New Time 1:00:09 Quantum Spacetime

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brendanhollow27 5 days, 8 hours ago

Living close to a black hole in order to buy yourself time and postpone the end of the universe has the complete opposite effect than intended. If time slows down for you, that means everything that is not effected by that dilation seems to speed up. It's more luke fast-forwarding to the end of the universe.

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jayeden68 5 days, 9 hours ago

Who is watching this video in 2026 , love space it give me a sense of adventure

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bertrand_charpentier 4 weeks ago

If time is relative, I don't get how they can say the universe is a particular age.

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tammy_white 4 months, 2 weeks ago

This is hands down one of the best documentaries on space-time I've ever watched. The storytelling is so immersive, especially the opening story about the dying civilization [00:04]. It makes complex physics feel so personal and poetic. Thank you for this masterpiece!

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raagini_dhar 4 months, 4 weeks ago

This exceeded every expectation I had!

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thibaultpixel54 4 months, 4 weeks ago

I’m in awe of how clearly you explained this!

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olivierdrift98 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Imagine you’re inside a spaceship orbiting the Sun, far beyond Pluto, and you’re building a LEGO tower by stacking identical cubic LEGO pieces one on top of the other. You have an endless supply of these pieces, so you can make the tower as long as you like. You’re constructing this tower tangentially to your orbit around the Sun, meaning that at the starting point, the tower extends in the direction of your spaceship’s motion along its orbital path. My question is whether, due to the curvature of spacetime caused by the Sun’s gravity, your perfectly straight LEGO tower would eventually curve and close in on itself, forming an ellipse or a circle like an orbit around the Sun.

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joe_hammond 1 year, 2 months ago

3:37 In "The Truman Show," the iconic quote "What the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to?" is spoken by Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey) when his wife, Meryl, is seemingly advertising a cocoa drink in a way that doesn't make sense to him.

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karen_larson 1 year, 3 months ago

It is incredible to me that we live in a time where content and information like this is just free and accessible...

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raagini_dhar 1 year, 4 months ago

🎉Thank You Especially For All Of Your Help!😮

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leon_williams 1 year, 6 months ago

Wouldn’t a civilization living within the gravity of a black hole actually be losing time? Because the end of the universe would be accelerated from their perspective so they would have less time to survive.

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jorge_razo 1 year, 6 months ago

Nothing is still and time doesn’t function the same everywhere and at every size.

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mariacecíliaalbuquerque427 1 year, 7 months ago

I very very rarely comment but when I do is for a reason. The reason here is that this is ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING CHANNEL. Great high class work! Congrats!

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ethan.santos 1 year, 7 months ago

I dont even understand any physics, i just like listening to these video when i go to sleep...

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dimitrios_bonbach 1 year, 7 months ago

I’m obsessed with this channel. I feel smarter and stupider at the same time…

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joshuaplume84 1 year, 8 months ago

I do really enjoy the 'tineless' piano and the other soundtrack. Perhaps, in time, we will learn to sweep together the matter in the void, bunch it up into a ball, and make our own stars, forever continuing our universe. Stranger things will happen.🤔😃

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hortensepoirier453 1 year, 8 months ago

That sponsor plug was smooth af 😂

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thibaultpixel54 1 year, 8 months ago

You've changed my brain chemistry, thank you 🤝

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carrie.chambers 1 year, 9 months ago

Probably the best video on YouTube right now.

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jacquelinesanchez870 1 year, 10 months ago

The guy who narrates Closer to Truth and this one are the top two on Youtube...I dont know exactly why but I enjoy listening to them.