What is Space Time? | StarTalk

Neil deGrasse Tyson blows William Shatner’s mind by explaining space time.

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[Sunset]

I lost it at "The universe is under no obligations to make sense to William Shatner".

[Steadno]

when two talkers are in the same place at the same time

[WideAwakeHuman]

Space time is one of the most fascinating concepts, ideas, facts, objects, things ever...

[rhysedwards]

That was one of the coolest educative sourcing videos I have seen in a long time. Brilliant intellectuals with great humour. ☺️

[omegapointil]

"But its confusing" .... "the Universe is under no obligation to make sense to Wm Shatner."

[fleshdunce]

"If you can't explain it to Shatner, then you don't understand it yourself"

[inertiaforce]

Nature is the greatest science fiction story of them all, and its real.

[RV]

Beam me up scotty there's no intelligent life down here.

[pieterwesterink]

now my head's gotta take a rest for a week... at least

[peacelove]

“What a great science fiction story”—William Shatner

[stevieb]

William Shatner is my new hero. "what a great science fiction story that is" lol

[davidwilkinson]

Most mind bending fact I’ve ever heard the photons trip was instantaneous I can’t wrap my head around that

[zacreineck]

i LOVE NEAIL DG TOOOO MUCH. When he gets proper intence u cant help but listen to him for hours

[johnbyrne]

Wait, he said that the faster you go the slower time goes for you *as seen by others*. So why would he say that from the photon's point of view time has stopped? Wouldn't be that time has stopped for the photon from an observer's point of view? In other words, the photon would perceive time to be passing at a normal rate, but it would perceive the universe to be frozen in space?

[darthhatespeech]

Fun fact. The german translation of "period" or "period of time" is "Zeitraum", which translated straight back means "timespace".
The meaning of this word in german goes a little further than "period" and comes a little closer to the meaning of the mathematical structure of space-time. This word subconsciously merges time and space.

[nostalgia]

Nice video. Philochrony is the theory that describes the nature of time and demonstrates its existence. Time is magnitive: objective, Imperceptible (intervals) and measurable.

[MichaelRelevant]

Two very distinct voices have a conversation.

[danclark]

I had people in my space taking up my time. Thats my space/time theory.

[Nuchallengr]

what a great science fiction story that is

[Hermaphroditus.]

What is space time?

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