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How to Know What’s Real

Time Tips From the Universe

Jan 8, 2024
36:24
Snipd AI
Perception of time and black holes, shared time and connection, the puzzle of time and its asymmetry, time, disorder, and change.
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Quick takeaways

  • Time is unidirectional and we can only move forward into the future, not back into the past.
  • Black holes reveal the relationship between gravity and time, with time appearing to slow down as an astronaut falls into a black hole from the perspective of an observer far away.

Deep dives

Time as a Unidirectional Force

Time is frustratingly different from space in that it only moves forward. We cannot go back in time, only into the future. This unidirectional nature of time is a significant aspect of our experience.

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