Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time

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Kurzgesagt never fails to give me an existential crisis.

"Me missing the bus was already predetermined since the big bang" Say that to your teacher in school lol

5:37 I was SO relieved when he said “Except, quantum stuff is ruining everything again”

Something I said in middle school: “you can’t change the future because changing the future was already a part of the future.”

Hard to believe this video is from 10 years ago time flies

Excellent video. Will have to watch it again yesterday, since I've already seen it tomorrow.

Love the Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared reference!

But just because we can't predict the quantum decay , doesn't have to mean that it isn't already predetermined in the way that the past present and future all exist equally.

The most unrealistic part is that I have a future 💀

"Weird mix of duck and mammal that makes no sense." It's such a way to roast a platypus.

I don't feel real after watching this video

I've always thought of time in the same way as a book. The story exists from beginning to end within the pages. But we can only experience it one word at a time in the same way we can only experience time itself one second at a time. An unread book holds surprise and the unknown, but the beginning, middle, end, and everything in between already exist. We see our lives as having a beginning, middle, and end, but we really have no way of knowing where our "blink and you missed it" existence is in the bigger picture of beginning, middle, and end. I guess skipping ahead and reading the ending would equate to time travel in this analogy, but only a complete a-hole would do that.

I love how you missing the bus is knitted into the narrative of this video. As you have missed the bus, are about to miss the bus, just missed the bus, will miss the bus, all at different points in the video

1:08 the Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared reference is awesome 😂 love those little things hidden in there

I was really really not expecting to run into any Space Dandy reference any time soon, and i feel so glad that i did. Also the video's great :]

I've been trying to explain this to people and nobody understands. Thanks, guys.

You finally made this video . . . it's about time!

The fact they can use all of these trademarked characters to illustrate their ideas makes it all feel so much more premium

This video is amazing. Thank you so much for your works!