Vlog #46 - Time

An article that inspired this piece:

[DavidRussell]

This has got to be my favorite of your vlogs. This alone deserves a TED talk--I was very impressed by not only your scientific relations, but also how poetic you made it all sound! Awesome video Nerdwriter :)

[gwynethandi]

Thank you for posting this. You managed to put into words one of the most baffling and, in a way, because of its weird impossibility, troubling thoughts I've ever had. I admire your coherence in the face of something that is too complex to even think about. Time, man. What is it?

[myunghm]

I just wanna say your video was really inspiring. After years of military service I thought my curiosity was dead, but you woke something inside me. Thank you and keep up the good work:)

[lucasl]

It's very wrong that these videos don't get as many views as they so much deserve.

[Korpasjaervii]

I love your vlogs. Not only do you talk about things that interest me, the way you talk about them and explain them is almost mezmerising. Please, never stop doing these...

[Nerdwriter]

Life is also the evolving complexity of an orgasm.

[uhmqat]

I love thinking about time. A friend of mine did his thesis on the fact that time is a man-made construct and brought it up to me once. Ever since then I've been fascinated with how time exists and how we let it control and contribute to our lives, so thank you very much for provoking some new thoughts about it.

[PicopicoEMD]

Just wanted to say I feel extremely lucky to have stumbled upon your videos. It isn't frequent to find a well produced, intelligent VLOG with relatively few views (compared to the big channels). Keep the videos coming, they are fantastic!

[cirishluck]

not kidding, I was laying down at 11pm last night and thought of this prior to ever seeing the video. the evolution of consciousness comes from the recognition of patterns that complete a past and give us recognizable characters we can use to predict the future. In this we are allowed to place ourselves and can then formulate an independent place for our consciousness or as you put it, our mind. amazing that i thought this while falling asleep, woke up this morning and watched this... totally had a Bader Meinhoff with the video.

[dimes]

As a physics student this was absolutely beautiful. Thank You.

[jamienelson]

I had to watch this one twice! You are very articulate and clear and informative, but I had to stretch my imagination around in ways it isn't used to! Very cool. Thank you!

[seanisthebomb]

I keep coming back to this video. So great. Probably the best vlog, I've seen in a while....and I've been watching the vlogbrothers nonstop lol

[trance_im_wald]

Maybe the concept of time is so high, that it is unsolvable for the species of humans, but for other species...

[hunryu]

Your vlogs are perfect in every way possible. Keep up the good work! I can't wait to be 18 and starting to contribute and donate to help you make more videos and raise awareness

[lonedell]

I have to hand it to you, another amazing vlog clocked up. Yup, on the face of it, you can tick this one off and gear up for the next one - don't spring into it too fast, though, you can unwind after this strike.

[WamBam_Baggity]

No lie I wrote a theorem last year about how our mind was the fifth dimension and my reasoning is because space, time and knowledge are all infinite but you have the details that connected each dimension to the next that I gave up trying to find...truly awesome video man and I completely agree...obviously haha.

[PoZloDead]

One of your best vlogs so far. Cheers!

[MYLOCS]

I happy you decided to make videos.. Best vlogger!

[Spacemannquin]

mindsplosion! I often have to watch your videos more than once to full understand your argument. really good stuff. I love the part on symbolic reality.

[DLooyenga]

I read an interesting perspective on time as Einstein related it to the three other dimensions of space. It explained how time slows down the faster you go like this:

"We are all moving at the speed of light when we are sitting on the couch. When we get up and change the energy to say, go to the bathroom, we translate the energy we are spending sitting in time to energy of momentum of moving through the other three dimensions. That is why time passes quicker on earth than astronauts at .99c"