{"id":145572,"date":"2022-09-03T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/does-the-past-still-exist"},"modified":"2022-09-03T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T02:22:40","slug":"does-the-past-still-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/does-the-past-still-exist","title":{"rendered":"Does the Past Still Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Does the Past Still Exist?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GwzN5YwMzv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To try out our new course (and many others on math and science), go to <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a dimension, similar to space, and has profound consequences for the nature of time. Most importantly it leads to what has been called the block universe, a universe in which all moments of time exist the same way together. The future, the present, and the past are the same, it is just our perception that suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc8c Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It\u2019s free! \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/\">http:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Support me on Patreon \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcd6 My new book \u201cExistential Physics\u201d is coming out in August \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/existentialphysics.com\/\">http:\/\/existentialphysics.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro.<br \/> 00:58 Space-time.<br \/> 02:09 Space-time diagrams.<br \/> 03:40 Special Relativity.<br \/> 05:05 The Relativity of Simultaneity.<br \/> 10:36 The Block Universe.<br \/> 12:46 The if\u2019s and but\u2019s.<br \/> 14:50 Sponsor Message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To try out our new course (and many others on math and science), go to https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}