Different Ways to Consider the Concept of Time

From an individual point of view, time moves in a line from your past to the present and then into the future. All we experience is the present, but we remember the past, and anticipate the future -although we cannot know it until it is the present. But the theory of relativity states that time moves differently for beings moving through space at different speeds, so is their “present” different from ours? And how would different “presents” work? The idea of multiple presents warps the idea of an unknowable future that can be affected by the choices we make in the present. If that’s too mind-blowing, maybe we should look at time in a different way to make it mesh with our lived experience. Then there’s always the possibility that we are wrong, but how would we ever know? Some scientists have even weirder ideas about how time works. Kurzgesagt takes us through these ideas in ten minutes with a video full of more or less obscure cultural references you may not catch the first time around; the rest of this video is an ad. -via Digg

Source: neatorama