What If Space And Time Are NOT Real?

If you watch PBS Space Time from the beginning, it feels like Matt is constantly preparing us mentally for the episode where he tells us the Real Meaning of Life.

"The greatest trick PBS Space Time ever played was convincing the audience that space time doesn't exist." -Professor Keyser Söze

I can stop watching for a year, come back, and episodes continue to be fresh and mind blowing. Thank you!🎉

I'm in energy generation but this man and his programme and/or channel make me want to study higher physics for real now. Extremely well articulated ideas. Impressive and eye-opening.

I love the fact that this series recovers the sense of natural philosophy. The real questions are asked here. Thank you to the PBS team❤️❤️

I have a PhD in physics. I teach physics in college. Despite all my experience, this video makes me rethink my notion of space and time. I love it. PBS Spacetime provides amazing contents that can be meaningful to all level of physics enthusiasts. Thank you to all the people involved in making those videos!

I just finished reading The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman, a very interesting way of rethinking our current understanding of physics and moving forward.

I had this hypothesis before you brought up Leibniz's theory, that properties like energy, velocity and position are properties of the relationship between objects because you can't know the position of an object without comparing it to another. The velocity of an object is measured differently depending on the positions and velocities of the observer so it makes sense that rather than the object having its own velocity quantity, that it is defined by the relationship between the two objects

Matt, Sabine & Anton are intelligently awesome people. They try their best to teach complex and challenging topics to the masses. Sincerely. Thank you.

Your videos are so cool that whenever I watch them but get distracted by e.g., making a coffee for myself, I need to (I want to) roll back to rewatch parts of it, because I do not want to skip important parts, even though I had my earprohes on me the whole time. You make all seconds count. Full with vital information and useful explanations. Thank you!

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein Nice to see physics finally start to catch up with his century old General Relativity.

The example of temperature as an analogy for explaining the nature of fields is amazing. Ive never heard that before and it deffinitely helps me understand my faulty grasp on the fundamental "what is" a field. Thank you, genuinely.

The episodes where a bunch of old philosophers are quoted are my favorites.

After following this channel for years I can honestly feel this is the start of your most important series. Break physics out of the box it's been stuck in for the last half century! There's no more appropriate topic for the time we're living in.

Love the philosophical episodes. Crazy how philosophers of the past become relevant in theoretical physics episodes!

I'm 70yrs old now and time is definitely going twice or even three times faster than before.

Can we take a moment to apreciate matt’s ability to explain such hard topics to understand? Im amazed👏

I've just recently, in the last two years or so become quite interested in physics, and have not been able to get enough of it since! I honestly pride myself on the amount of understanding I think I've gained in that amount of time. For instance, I can now somewhat intelligently make my way through a conversation about Schrödinger's cat, the double slit experiment, spooky action at a distance or the laws of thermodynamics. However, whenever I watch THIS channel, I'm immediately catapulted back to day one and reminded that actually, I have NO understanding of physics whatsoever. Lol. Everything on this channel is way over my head. That now makes my eventual understanding of it one of my life's goals, haha. It will happen!

I loved this video, and want to see the whole series! :)

That explanation of relational space reminds me of reading Flatland for the first time when I was a little kid and how it absolutely blew my tiny mind. Core memory, that. Love your work!!