This Paradox Proves Einstein's Special Relativity

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[upandatom]

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! If you were flying at 99% the speed of light and holding a hand mirror out in front of you, would you see your own reflection?

[guillermocasas]

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[charlie_]

I just studied Special Relativity this past term and this video really resembles the way my professor taught it (without the math, of course). Amazingly done!

[JohnWilliams-ojen]

You did a great job with your explanation. I have a Ph.D in physics and couldn't have done any better. Keep up your good work.

[janjager]

I remember when I tried to grasp these concepts: spacetime, reference frames, time dilation, etc. YouTube already existed and I tried to find explanations that would stick in my brain. I gave up and just accepted it had to be true or GPS would’nt work. It made me feel quite inadequate at times. Of course, with time I got a better grip on the matter. But man, what a help a video like this would have been. Thank you, brilliant!

[genesisdju]

Your work is always brilliant. And I think the fact that you take your time to really understand the subject is one of the reasons why. Everyone needs time to really know anything but you have the honesty to recognize it and it's rare. Thank you for all your work. You make this world a better place to live in.

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[hmyhfou]

I love your channel Jade! I'm a huge science buff and advocate but I'm by no means a scholar. However, I have a huge thirst for knowledge and information and your videos satiate my brains needs so thanks for what you do... you're my new favorite teacher 😀

[rickandrygel]

I've heard it explained as everything is always traveling at the speed of light, just the speed is split between travel through space and travel through time. So when you gain speed through space you lose speed through time, keeping your speed a constant.

[LandoCalrissiano]

This is actually the best explanation of the muon paradox and special relativity I've seen. I'm probably going to remember it for a very long time.

[ryanfriedrich]

The editing on this is amazing. Props to the editor.

[g_gaming]

This is the first video I’ve seen from you and it will not be the last lol! I absolutely love how well you are able to convey complex topics like these and keep the viewer well grasped as well as making the info easy to retain.💜

[afrosymphony]

i just discovered your channel....i dont have words for what i'm feeling right now. The way you broke this down is insane to me, i've always struggled to understand what frame of reference and inertial frame of reference means, i learnt those in high school but only crammed them in order to regurgitate them in a test or exam, heck i always struggle to remember what dilation actually means, you've made me understand these and other concepts in this video so intutively that i dont think i'll ever forget them again. THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭

[scottlampe]

terrific explanation Jade, there was a literal moment where my mind went "aah! that's why!" Thank you, you really are an excellent educator.

[paulpurington]

These concepts are really complex and difficult to comprehend. You do a great job of making these abstract concepts visually understandable.

[yourfavoritedenturewearer]

I have to say this. even though you probably won't see it because this is an older video. But I learn more from you than any other educational videos on you tube. You make things very easy to understand and that makes it very easy to learn from you. I watch a lot of videos about space, science, history, biology and so on, and still no matter what your videos are about I still learn more from you than anyone else. I wish I would have had teachers like you while I was in School, I would have probably done better and cared more and went on to be a scientist of some sort...Thank you for what you do and thank you for making it easy for me to learn something new every time I watch a video.

[Toastmaster_]

This was a really good way at explaining all of the topics. I feel like there could've been more elaboration with length contraction but otherwise, this explains the situation very well.

[JimmyZNJ]

Jade you are a true gem! I've worked as an engineer for over 35 years, yet your down to earth explanations of so many complex topics have given me a much better understanding of these things. Keep up the great work! 👍

[Untitlednobody]

I cannot fully explain how beautiful you and your videos are. Especially this one. You know i have never truly found a video on physics (specifically relativity) in like 5 years of researching it; that actually dives into the abstractions of all these concepts and makes them understandable for someone who does not think like this. I usually find myself asking questions after someone explains something in a video, and feeling uneasy when they dont answer my question. However in your videos, everytime i ask a question in my head, you answer it simply and blatantly; no bullshit. It might sound crazy to say but it strikes me that einsteins quote “you dont truly understand something unless you can explain it to a 6 year old” - rings more true the more “advanced physicists” i see trying to explain something complex like this topic. Seems as if most people just repeat what the textbooks have told them, and think they understand as soon as they hear it. But seriously, it is about being able to not just visualize, but become the laws of what the concepts are exhibiting. Its about understanding the concept enough to literally be in the same wavelength as it. And what you say at the end of the video really hits my heart on a deeper level, because I too actually find all of these concepts extremely hard to wrap my head around, like my mind works in the opposite way of physics. However it continues to interest me because of this unfathomability. And it just really hits home when i hear you say the same thing i always think about myself; that you want to be able to describe this stuff to someone like yourself; in whos brain doesnt work in the way physicists brains do— but still has an unreasonable burning passion for it. Its not just incredibly humble of you to say this, but its also incredibly monumental on a wordly perspective. Because you are truly influencing and sparking the minds of the ones out there like you and me that love physics and want to learn, but cant find anyone or anything teaching it blatantly enough to help them wrap their heads around it. You are doing the 1% of teaching out here. The einstein- kind of teaching, that is; being able to explain it to a 6 year old. And you know, it is more than just physics lessons, this is groundbreaking, lifechanging, fucking other wordly, heroic stuff. Sorry this is so long i just really cannot fully explain to you how amazing and beautiful what you are doing is. I finally found a youtube channel that can truly help me understand what ive been trying so desperately to understand in years of learning. And i just would like you to know, i will be a great physicist one day. And you, Jade, may have just sparked the mind of the next einstein.

[Baghdadbatterymusic]

They say you don't truly understand a topic if you can't explain it to a 5 year old. I may be an adult, but science has never interested me until recently (probably all the bad teachers I had in school and the stress of not understanding them). For all intents and purposes, I'm a 5 year old when it comes to science - and you explained yourself perfectly clearly to me. It's content creators like you who make me realize I do have a passion for physics and science, I just never had a teacher that kindled the interest in me. Thank you so much for all your hard work, your videos are very important to me.