Are Space and Time An Illusion?

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to the PBS Space Time series as a high-quality, bite-sized way to learn modern physics concepts.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PBS Space Time

Topic

spacetime physics

Format

explainer

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• There's an episode of PBS Space Time about this, "The Speed of Light is NOT About Light" [1], which comes pretty close to making the same points you are making. It might be useful to watch this earlier episode, "Are Space and Time an Illusion?" …

• The speed of light does not change for each given reference frame, i.e. it is constant. However, space and time are observed differently depending on a given reference frame. With regards to your second question, photons experience no time whatsoever. From the photon's perspective, they …

• I spend pretty much every weekend watching (super dyslexic) hours and hours of "stuff" about quantum, form quantum biology to physics to astro, here are some good ones around humans and the universe. Some may not seem totally relevant but give foundational knowledge, suggest watching …