Can you solve the time traveling car riddle? - Dan Finkel

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You and the professor have driven your DeLorean back to the past to fix issues with the spacetime continuum caused by your time traveling. But another DeLorean appears with older versions of you and the professor. The professors panic and explain that the universe could collapse now that you’re both in the same time and place. Can you merge the timestreams and travel home? Dan Finkel shows how.

Lesson by Dan Finkel, directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.

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[ishamael]

"If the earth were flat there would be no way to solve this riddle"

Flat earthers : 💀

[aamierulharith]

"Can you solve..." title made me clicked immediately

[ezay]

This has been the only riddle I’ve been able to solve without pausing or researching. Love these riddles

[canadianshark]

4:16 I love that reference to the other time travel puzzle. Good job, TED-Ed!

[davea]

Back to the Future movie time travel quote from Dr. Emmett Brown: "Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour, the instant the lightning strikes the tower... everything will be fine."

[gingerinajacket]

The unfortunate thing, is if you had time travellers go back to the past to do the same thing you did, that means paracausally whatever you did was not enough to stop Riff from becoming a tyrannical ruler, since if you did stop it, it would have been not a problem that they would have needed to solve.

[FL_]

This is really great, they should make a movie based on this

[alexandragatto]

Finally a new riddle! I appreciated that this one was different than the advanced mathematics that seem to have become de rigeur for the channel. Let folks' whose strengths lie in other areas feel like they have a shot at solving every once in a while! At least for this one I thought "gotta be something to do with the Poles" - any of the super intense math ones I'm just watching for entertainment purposes only 😅

[matematixyt]

did anyone else notice the other time traveler from the triangle nodes riddle at the end of the video?

[pancakeclasher]

I’ve watched every Ted-Ed riddle on this page. And this is the only one I’ve been able to solve on my own and I was actually able to solve it almost immediately

[arthurdabest]

1-check if you have green eyes
2-ask the time gates to leave

[emeraldnickel]

I remember a similar riddle: an explorer walks a mile south of his base camp. Then he sees a bear, screams, and runs a mile east. Finally, he walks a mile north, back to his base camp. What colour was the bear?

[RidireOiche]

I'll be honest; I couldn't help but give myself a high-five to see what would happen. Would I have/Will I both time explode, would I time merge, or would everything else time explode or would time itself collapse? I would need to know. So I doubt I would have noticed the professor poof away or that the timeline needed to be fixed. Sorry everybody but good news, you are reading this so I never get the chance to time travel.

[bonniegao]

I literally only click these videos for the story

[ghostraptor]

One of the only Ted Ed riddles I managed to solve on my own. Always the best feeling

[yudhakurnia]

"Can you solve--"

"No!! But I will watch it anyway"

[MusicallyQ]

*The original version of this puzzle goes like this:*

*A man walks a mile due south from his campsite.*
*He encounters a bear, and immediately runs a mile due east. The bear is gone, so he then walks a mile due north to his campsite. What color was the bear?*

[sisiwen]

Finally, a new riddle! Have been waiting for a long time for one. Can we have one every week? I just love these riddles that you came up with.

[spmagic]

It’s a good thing YouTube’s staff is also helping fix the space-time continuum.

[elliejordan]

The fact that they made this right when Back to the Future the Musical just went into previews on Broadway is so cool