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We Know More About Time Than You Think

Sir Isaac Newton claimed time flows universally. Albert Einstein said that time is relative to the observer. Theoretical physicist Professor Brian Greene rejoins WIRED to break down the emerging theories that tell us everything we know about time; from the impact of speed (special relativity) and gravity (general relativity) on time dilation to the role…

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Sir Isaac Newton claimed time flows universally. Albert Einstein said that time is relative to the observer. Theoretical physicist Professor Brian Greene rejoins WIRED to break down the emerging theories that tell us everything we know about time; from the impact of speed (special relativity) and gravity (general relativity) on time dilation to the role of entropy, Brian walks us through the mystery of time.

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28 Comments

  1. @taxman9985

    August 7, 2026 at 3:29 pm

    What’s happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It’s not an excuse to do nothing.

  2. @BitSquareStudio

    August 7, 2026 at 3:33 pm

    I like your funny words, science man.

  3. @bradshema6182

    August 7, 2026 at 3:34 pm

    11:48 So measuring time is measuring how disorganised the room is compared to another point in time?

  4. @slowliving2

    August 7, 2026 at 3:34 pm

    He was in Epstein files. Stop giving him platform.

  5. @Pengunjung

    August 7, 2026 at 3:35 pm

    I’m not sure that the light moves, bruh.
    The source of the light could move but the light itself doesn’t.
    It is exist (appear) and (inexist) dissapear, without impacted by the distance.
    The ‘range of the light’ depends on its power (energy).

    That’s my opinion.

    • @ChadwickJames

      August 7, 2026 at 4:23 pm

      He has no idea, I wouldn’t give him a second thought.

  6. @IndigoHexLine

    August 7, 2026 at 3:37 pm

    How do you make this video sound less like it was researched by a group of students who didn’t care about their grade in physics class?

    • @IndigoHexLine

      August 7, 2026 at 3:41 pm

      2 seconds; everybody exists in the *NOW* but by the time a word has left your mouth to a recipient, 3 seconds has elapsed

      Enough time to formulate a joke about their dumb comment, and enough time for them to no longer be in the vicinity to hear it

  7. @holgerjrgensen2166

    August 7, 2026 at 3:37 pm

    The Stuff-side of the Eternal Life, is a Motion-Ocean,
    Time is the ‘Shadow’ of Motion, Stuff-side,
    Time do Only exist in the Consciousness of Living Beings.
    Forget about Newton, Einstein, and Brian Greene.
    Every child knows what Time-Space is, ”space-time”, is Doomed,
    because it give NO meaning.
    ”Time Dilation”, is another Dead mantra, there is NO time dilation.

  8. @User-54631

    August 7, 2026 at 3:50 pm

    When my parents told me to get a job. I asked them “what is a job”

  9. @newinformation1942

    August 7, 2026 at 3:50 pm

    Everytime I see light it is stationary, unless shifted by a shadow casted by a moving object…

  10. @metawolf987

    August 7, 2026 at 3:52 pm

    It’s more like a ball, of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey…stuff.

    • @MKG1949Nash

      August 7, 2026 at 5:40 pm

      Thank you Dr. Who! I think that I agree, lol.

  11. @Loxo74

    August 7, 2026 at 4:14 pm

    Still there’s no time in space and on earth, and no one can prove it’s existence

  12. @Masterstroke39

    August 7, 2026 at 4:17 pm

    I think time is manipulated like ripples in a pond; something that will affect the future will affect the past.

    My believe that time travel works like a loop that occurs countless quadrillions of times, and every line carries an infinitesimal change. After a certain number of rotations, that change can cause the loop to change itself. This explains the grandfather paradox, where you can kill him and still go back, to alter your creation. I also believe the universe will naturally auto-correct changes to the fabric of time to prevent total collapse.

    Just because Kyle Reese was sent back in time doesn’t mean he was John Conner’s original Father; maybe Kyle’s son just took on the role, carrying a different loop.

  13. @LennartÖstman

    August 7, 2026 at 4:26 pm

    Enter God….

  14. @118ghost

    August 7, 2026 at 4:26 pm

    I agree with Brian when he first informed us of his theory on the Island with all us nerds and Jeffery

  15. @nevetstrevel4711

    August 7, 2026 at 4:50 pm

    Time probably doesn’t exist

  16. @margauxh2701

    August 7, 2026 at 5:04 pm

    I had this exact conversation with a friend at 3 am that covered all his talking points, I feel big brain

  17. @MKG1949Nash

    August 7, 2026 at 5:38 pm

    Hmmm, not being a scientist I’m in the dark here. Everything that you explained, to me, is a representation of time, not actual time. Time is not an object or a sentient bring but an ethereal thing with no actual body. If time stops, as in your black hole theory, then it would seem that the person would not exist at that moment. The measurements of time may cease but time itself carries on in spite of that unless everything ends at that moment. Please elucidate.

  18. @plasmaburndeath

    August 7, 2026 at 5:40 pm

    Bro drops what will soo be a $100 single egg on the floor in this economy you know he be ballin’

  19. @user-yl5rl7tg2j

    August 7, 2026 at 6:53 pm

    hard to believe anyone who tries to force a BS theory like string theory

    if you have 3 apples and it requires 9 for a pie… pretending you have 9 and saying, “we have PIE” is kinda insane it doesnt matter that apples + crust = pie…. apparently numbers matter in physics, who knew?

  20. @xaviertayo6208

    August 7, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    I need to watch this again.😊

  21. @vesuvandoppelganger

    August 7, 2026 at 7:09 pm

    Here are 2 ships passing each other.

    Ship1 at rest at top.

    10;00 10;00
    T——————–N
    <--- N----------T 10;00 10;02 Ship2 at rest at bottom. 10;00 09;58 T----------N --->
    N——————–T
    10;00 10;00

    Are the 2 ships passing each other once or twice?
    T1 passes N2 twice. T1 passes N2 when the clock at N1 reads 9;58. T1 passes N2 again when the clock at N1 reads 10;00. If T1 meets N2 once then what is the time displayed at N1 when this happens?

  22. @meltz87

    August 7, 2026 at 7:16 pm

    I got about half of that, and I liked it

  23. @cerboris521

    August 7, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    I think time is a result of movement through space like how charge is electrons moving through a magnetic field. If u could stop all your motion in relation to space time would stop. You cannot reverse time because you cannot reverse your motion in space. you just change direction.

  24. @willivonen

    August 7, 2026 at 8:05 pm

    You guys need to learn Kurt godel’s incompleteness on a deeper level.😊

  25. @sub-harmonik

    August 7, 2026 at 9:22 pm

    We are always time-traveling backwards and forwards in time. It’s just that we can’t remember doing so because the neurons and chemical reactions in our brains are also moving backwards and forwards in time

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