The Paradox of Time | 5min snip from Cosmosis [Formerly The UFO Rabbit Hole]

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Cosmosis [Formerly The UFO Rabbit Hole]

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The Paradox of Time

Physicist Robert Lanza argues that both space and time don't have an objective independent existence, but rather they are tools used by the animal mind to make sense of sensory inputs. The future is just a mental construct; so too it is with the past, which exists only in the recollections of the mind. All of our models from Newton's laws to Einstein's field equations through quantum mechanics have no need for time. They are all time symmetrical, meaning that they work the same way backwards as they do forwards.

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