The time may be now for you, but not someone else

31 January 2024

Well, here we are, the first month of 2024 is at an end. Time is certainly passing by. Or is it? Does time even really exist? In their latest video, Kurzgesagt takes a closer at the idea of time. Spoiler: time may not quite be what you think…

When you move through space, you are also moving through the block. This means time passes differently for different people, depending on how they move through space relative to each other. And this also means that what someone perceives as “now” is a certain cut along the block — a cut that will depend on how fast they are moving. So what you think is “now” is really only your now — there are many different “nows” in the universe and all of them are equally real. This also means there is no universal past or future.

This is heavy…