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Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now"

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6964 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn why Einstein worried that science can’t explain “the now,” how high-impact exercise is actually good for your bones, and why in Haiti, zombies are more than fiction.

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Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now" by Ashley Hamer

High-Impact Exercise Is Actually Good for Your Bones by Ashley Hamer

In Haiti, Zombies Are More Than Fiction by Cameron Duke


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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

0:06.5

I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.5

And I'm Natalia Reagan.

0:08.8

Today you learn why Einstein worried that science can't explain the now, how high impact exercise is

0:14.8

actually good for your bones, and why in Haiti zombies are more than fiction.

0:19.4

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:21.5

You're listening to this podcast right now. I can say

0:27.0

that even though I don't know when you'll listen to this. I can't say you're

0:30.7

listening to it tomorrow or yesterday but I can say you're listening to it tomorrow or yesterday, but I can say you're listening to it now.

0:35.2

That's how special now is.

0:38.0

And yet, for all the thought that's been devoted to time, science doesn't consider now as different from the future or the past.

0:46.4

In fact, Albert Einstein himself struggled with this conundrum.

0:51.0

Scientists hardly touched the concept of time until Einstein came along.

0:54.0

Though he couldn't explain time itself, he did show some peculiar things about it.

0:59.0

That to a stationary observer, time flows more slowly for a moving object, and that the greater the force of gravity,

1:06.2

the slower time flows.

1:08.3

But neither he, nor anyone else, could explain what made the present moment objectively different from the past or the future.

1:16.0

And that bothered him. A friend once wrote that this problem, quote,

1:20.0

seemed to him a matter of painful but inevitable resignation."

1:24.0

A lot of this comes down to the fact that science centers on objective reality

1:30.0

and the present moment is defined by your experience of it.

1:33.6

Because of that, some scientists say the present moment

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