Four Fascinating Paradoxes | Wondrium Perspectives

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Paradoxes can be mind-bending, frustrating, or enjoyable puzzles to solve. Whether they come from the realm of time travel or everyday life, paradoxes can spur some of our deepest thinking and most perplexing views of the world around us.

In this episode of Perspectives, several experts cover paradoxes that will make your brain spin.
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Clips in this video are from the following series on Wondrium:

How to Boost Your Physical and Mental Energy, presented by Kimberlee Bethany Bonura

Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes, presented by David Kung

What Einstein Got Wrong, presented by Dan Hooper

Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy, presented by David Kyle Johnson

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Chapter List:

00:00 The Paradox of Choice
05:05 The Traveler’s Paradox
07:34 The Twin Paradox
10:15 The Grandfather Paradox

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#Paradoxes #Philosophy #Riddles

[sirkittius]

Let me save everyone some time.

1. MATERIALISM BUY BUY BUY sit down and shut up indoctrination.

2. Math, not a paradox.

3. Someone who read Stephen Hawking and thinks he can somehow explain it better. Stephen Hawking's books have illustrations.

4. Honestly there isn't a 4th one. There was maybe 1 altogether.

Clickbait.

[tonymon]

They paid only $27 (3x9). The neighbor gave $25 to the innkeeper and kept $2 for himself. That's how you have to look at it.

[ValeryValWho]

I wasn't expecting the first paradox of choice, I clicked on the video thinking it would be all about logical problems... But thank you, I really needed to hear that. I'm very perfectionist and I'm working with my therapist to accomplish just that: be good enough

[joannaddison]

I don't understand how traveling the speed of light slows down our basic body functions of getting old. It's in our DNA?

[maini]

Missing the point. Just watch your breathe. Do it for 12 hours. Everything will become clear. You will get to know yourself.

[richardbrowning]

Too many choices. Bad choice - I started watching this video. I thought it was about paradoxes. But I rectified it by stopping watching.

[alexciocca]

How bout the many choices of boloney drives me up the wall through the wall under the wall around the wall

[ScottLaVoie-yzyy]

I love having choice over not having it unlike communist what kind of car one kind of butter one kind of cheese. I see no paradox in that

[TomTom-rhgk]

The video is wrong. There is no such thing as a river of time. All change takes place in the three dimensions. While we do travel in the 4th dimension that is about gravity not time. .

[MrBanzoid]

In the first paradox, never forget that "perfect" is the enemy of 'good enough".

[jimwilson]

Altered Universe paradox... Is this concept merely fiction?

[rohissangroula]

Hmm.. The paradox of choice; I believe if someone is aware enough of his action and the choices he makes every moment, then there wouldn't be any paradox for him! So cool though! As always; the great course! 👍

[pwhite]

time can't go faster than the speed of time. Both the murder of your grandfather and you are moving forward in time at 1 second per second. You don't vanish. You time travel back to your starting point. You and your grandfather still exist. The only way to see the results of the murder is to go back in time again (for the second time) and then you will see the results and you still don't vanish. It's like moving up and down through a stack of pancakes inside of a strawberry. If you stay with your dead grandfather, you will eventually see your own non birth but you still don't vanish. I hate time travel!

[TerryJLaRue]

At the speed of light, time stops. Therefore, I have never thought that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but rather time speeds up as one slows down. Time is what we experience as we move slower than the speed of light. And we experience more of it the slower we go. We cannot ever "stop" completely because the atoms of our surroundings are always moving at some rate.

[octaviodovalle]

But we know that when you travel to your past, you are traveling into your future. You are only affecting a different past

[jaixzz]

Have a look at energy generation choices. Most people have trouble with only **two alternatives**

[Morning-doom]

Comes down to gratitude vs. entitlement.😎🧂

[BecomingLizzyBlue]

I have a different theory of time, that admittedly developed from the Marvel movies. 😁 According to my albeit limited understanding, Einstein said time was personal. So if we travel back, that time only changes for us, and it actually becomes part of our future. I see it a little like copying and pasting a paragraph and then editing it. And if you then return to the exact moment you left, you reset things so that you’re the only who experiences the change. It creates a sort of isolated bubble or pocket of alternate events that’s closed so that anyone else traveling back would not experience any changes you made. If you’ve seen the Marvel movies, this is how I explain Steve Rogers traveling back and having a life with Peggy without drastically altering the future. It also explains why he is now so much older. I’d love to find a physicist and get there view on it.

[mykrahmaan]

The time dilation concept equates the concept of "tiime" as the caue of all events in the universe (Science's substitute for God) with the "time" measured by clocks, which has a simple mechanical cause.

It is childish and naive to believe that the events that cause aging is the same as that which cause the clocks to move, just because Einstein gave a formula to it and observations prove the predictions derived from it.

PAST is memory of "good" events that one wishes to "reliven" and of "bad" events that one would rather erase, while both being considered impossible.

Yet, if one finds a way to render both above possible, then PAST ceases to exist.

But the concept of "block time" (or eternalism described above) need not be the ultimate fact if rendering both above possible involves generating matter that doesn't currently exist.

These paradoxes and looking for ways to solve them are sheer waste of time.

[BobCristofaro]

The neighbor stole two dollars, he owed them $1.66 each, no paradox!