Movie Time Travel DEBUNKED

 
"Edge of Tomorrow" is only that latest blockbuster to deal with time travel - but could it happen for real? We talked to real scientists to get the scoop behind our favorite time travel movies!

THANKS TO OUR GUESTS:
Christina Heinlein - Scientist, NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories

 
Series Created by Andy Signore & Brett Weiner
Executive Produced by Andy Signore
Written by Hal Rudnick and Dan Murrell
Directed and edited by Dan Murrell

Also while we have you, why not check out our HONEST TRAILERS!

Honest Trailers: TOP GUN

Honest Trailers: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010)

Honest Trailers: THE X-MEN TRILOGY

Honest Trailers: GODZILLA (1998)

Honest Trailers: STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES

Honest Trailers: THE SPIDER-MAN TRILOGY:

Honest Trailers: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET:

Honest Trailers: GAME OF THRONES
 
Honest Trailers: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
 
Honest Trailers: FROZEN
 
Honest Trailers: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
 
Honest Trailers: 300
 
Honest Trailers: GRAVITY
 
Honest Trailers: THOR: THE DARK WORLD
 
Honest Trailers: ROBOCOP
 
Honest Trailers: FRIDAY
 
Honest Trailers: DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION
 
Honest Trailers: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
 
Honest Trailers: HOME ALONE
 
Honest Trailers: MAN OF STEEL
 
Honest Trailers: THOR
 
Honest Trailers: PACIFIC RIM
 
Honest Trailers: THE WALKING DEAD
 
Honest Trailers: AFTER EARTH
 
Honest Trailers: THE MATRIX
 
Honest Trailers: WORLD WAR Z
 
Honest Trailers: IRON MAN 3
 
Honest Trailers: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
 
Honest Trailers: BREAKING BAD
 
Honest Trailers: BATMAN & ROBIN:
 
Honest Trailers: X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE:
 
Honest Trailers: GROWN UPS
 
Honest Trailers: INDEPENDENCE DAY
 
Honest Trailers: THE LAST AIRBENDER
 
Honest Trailers: FAST FIVE
 
Honest Trailers: STAR TREK (2009)
 
Honest Trailers: IRON MAN 2
 
Honest Trailers: HARRY POTTER
 
Honest Trailers: JURASSIC PARK
 
Honest Trailers: LES MISERABLES
 
Honest Trailers: TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN
 
Honest Trailers: THE NOTEBOOK
 
Honest Trailers: SKYFALL
 
Honest Trailers: INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
 
Honest Trailers: INCEPTION
 
Honest Trailers: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
 
Honest Trailers: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
 
Honest Trailers: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
 
Honest Trailers: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
 
Honest Trailers: PROMETHEUS
 
Honest Trailers: THE AVENGERS
 
Honest Trailers: THE HUNGER GAMES
 
Honest Trailers: THE DARK KNIGHT
 
Honest Trailers: AVATAR
 
Honest Trailers: TRANSFORMERS
 
Honest Trailers: TITANIC
 
Honest Trailers: TWILIGHT
 
Honest Trailers: THE PHANTOM MENACE

Are you still reading this?? If so, tell us where you'd like to time travel in the comments below!!

[gizmog]

I loved the black doctor, he was super funny!

[SmokeySmudgeStudio]

I would travel 200 years into the future for the release date of half-life 3

[lopfi]

Dr. Johnson is like the coolest scientist ever and he watch a lot of movies.

[kkehoe]

I'd watch the titanic sink and realize that the extra weight from me and the hundreds of other time travelers is what causes the ship to sink.

[BloggerfromDownUnder]

TARDIS is the best form of time travel. 

[mr.scarlo]

They did this video to talk about _Edge of Tomorrow_ which they call a time-travel movie, but there is no actual travelling in time, he’s just stuck in a time-spatial-loop.

[TaffysManCave]

Is there a director's cut of this where I can actually hear the scientists talk about the faults of the premises and not Hal Rudnick doing his best Stephen Colbert impersonation? Neil DeGrasse Tyson wouldn't take your shit, Rudnick.

[exelibrium]

The best guests Screen-junkies have had so far.

[adrianortega]

I would collect a bunch of honest trailers for really bad movies, go back in time, and show them to their respective directors to ensure they never happen. I'd need one for Battlefield Earth and Catwoman, though.

[mustangkrillin]

I'm not going backwards.  I'm going forward to Idiocracy so I can be the smartest man on the planet.

[avan]

DeLorean time travel is not possible because it requires you to move at "precisely 88 miles per hour." Since motion is relative, this can not happen. The moment the flux capacitor is activated, it is already traveling on a rotating Earth, orbiting the sun, circling the Milky Way, expanding into outer space. So you could not reach 88 miles per hour. If you only needed to travel "at least" 88 miles per hour, then you would time-travel the instant the capacitor was activated; however, the Earth would have moved from the time you are traveling to, so you would end up floating in a DeLorean in the vast, cold emptiness of space. Better to make a time machine out of a space ship than a car, because you're going to need it to fly back home.

[michwashington]

This is by far 1 of the most entertaining educational screen junkies youtube that I've seen . Keep it up Hal, I enjoyed it I wanna see more of this.

[komoyodo]

Peter Jackson had nothing to do with the Hobbit splitting into 3 movies. He originally wanted it to be 1. But Warner Bros said "NOT ENOUGH MONEY"

[MICROmor]

we don't need a bunch of doctor to tell us that movie physics aren't real

[KingKhanAbz]

That banter/sexual chemistry between Hal and Dr. Johnson in 5:41. Haha! 😂

[jackmarston]

I wish Hal had asked them about Superman's flying around the world backwards time travel. I would have loved to hear their responses to that.

[JamesTheEpicGamer]

Those are the coolest scientists I have ever seen

[gpcat]

WOW, the best part of this video was the advertisement that came before it. I usually just press skip right away, but that Lifeboy ad was powerful and pulled at all my heart strings. If it happens to be the add in your video, just watch it to the end. Quite moving.

[JoshuaEFinley]

Here's one fact for everyone!

Time does not really exist. Time is simply the rate of events in comparison to another rate of events. Humanity invented time in order to mark the circuit of the chain of certain events such as the rotation of the earth and the orbit around the sun.

As you move faster the comparative rate of events to others changes accordingly and that gives us the illusion of slowing down "time" when really it is simply the individual or object stepping up the ladder of existence to a faster plane.

Once you hit a certain speed and wavelength certain objects and things become comparatively insignificant and apparently disappear.

Motion is entirely relative to the observer and "time" is entirely based on motion.

Humanity views time and space entirely based on light. To us light speed is the fastest thing in the universe, but indeed there could be another beam of light, or any other object,  moving at comparatively 1, 000, 000 times the speed of light that we would never witness because it is too far beyond us. All matter follows the laws of physics and it has been proven that all things, even energy, has matter, even if it is the tiniest of tiniest portions. This means that Light even has matter and this has been studied and witnessed by scientists. Thusly light must follow inertia this has also been witnessed to some small degree by shining light through different media.

If you were to accelerate to the speed of light, the light around you before-hand would cease to be relevant, but if you were to shine a flash light, then that beam of light would move at the speed of light in comparison to your movement.

We already know about tachyons, particles that move faster than light which are not simply theoretical anymore. We can only observe them when they slow down while moving through a medium.

What has happened has happened. Nothing can travel backwards in "time" because "time" is simply an illusion. We can witness something that happened long ago in the cosmic chain of events because the light from it still exists, but there is no way we'd be able to interact with the actual happening.

[cfryant]

I really like listening to Dr. Johnson talk about this stuff, he comes off genuinely interested and repeatable. When I watch someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson I get a sense of condescension. I'm not trying to badmouth the guy, it's just an impression I get, who knows if it's really true.