Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time

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Kurzgesagt never fails to give me an existential crisis.

"Me missing the bus was already predetermined since the big bang" Say that to your teacher in school lol

5:37 I was SO relieved when he said “Except, quantum stuff is ruining everything again”

Something I said in middle school: “you can’t change the future because changing the future was already a part of the future.”

The most unrealistic part is that I have a future 💀

Excellent video. Will have to watch it again yesterday, since I've already seen it tomorrow.

Love the Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared reference!

The past doesn’t exist, the present is the past, the future is the present.

"Weird mix of duck and mammal that makes no sense." It's such a way to roast a platypus.

Hard to believe this video is from 10 years ago time flies

really like when someone explains about confusing time things, and I fractionly understand it little by little

I don't feel real after watching this video

I love how you missing the bus is knitted into the narrative of this video. As you have missed the bus, are about to miss the bus, just missed the bus, will miss the bus, all at different points in the video

The fact Kurz spent a month travelling to the future just to educate us about it is insane dedication

I've always thought of time in the same way as a book. The story exists from beginning to end within the pages. But we can only experience it one word at a time in the same way we can only experience time itself one second at a time. An unread book holds surprise and the unknown, but the beginning, middle, end, and everything in between already exist. We see our lives as having a beginning, middle, and end, but we really have no way of knowing where our "blink and you missed it" existence is in the bigger picture of beginning, middle, and end. I guess skipping ahead and reading the ending would equate to time travel in this analogy, but only a complete a-hole would do that.

now im just way more confused than i was

The fact they can use all of these trademarked characters to illustrate their ideas makes it all feel so much more premium

Interstellar moment, I love overly complex explanations of time!

In the middle of reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Today I just got out the other end of the free will existential crisis part, so I’m a bit more prepared for this. I personally think that the static universe explanation might actually make sense; I think that there might be a way to determine quantum decay and we might just not have the ability to look hard enough yet. We thought there was nothing inside a particle, and Lo and behold, quarks. I just think that the eventual explanation is gonna be so convoluted and perhaps even turtles-all-the-way-down ish that it’s gonna be a minute before we know. Remember guys, even if every one of our actions are predetermined, we still get to have the experience of life. Its ups and downs, its beauties, its tragedies. Wanting to have a chunk of it be fully under your control could be, while reasonable at best, greedy at worst. And those determinations are still, in essence, part of yourself. You are a collective of atoms and energy. If a decision comes from within that bundle of atoms, it is still your decision and you can and should be proud of it. Existing is clearly better than not existing due to your positive effect upon this reality and the experience of the world around you. We are in the ice block; we look around and marvel at its crystalline structure. There, in the enrichment of the consciousness, there is meaning. But what do I know? I’m some 16 year old on the internet. If you have any ideas, or critiques, please tell me. I want to learn, need to learn. And I can’t do that alone.