Do You Know What Time It Is?
2008 · 49 MIN · IMDB 8.7 · 91 VOTES · DIR. Paul Olding
Overview
Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what it is that we're asking? He investigates the concept of time, exploring its origins and its limits, and questioning whether travelling through it will ever be possible. Brian visits the ancient Mayan pyramids in Mexico where the Maya built temples to time. He finds out that a day is never 24 hours and meets Earth's very own Director of Time. He journeys to the beginning of time, and goes beyond within the realms of string theory, and explores the very limit of time. He discovers that we not only travel through time at the speed of light,but the experience we feel as the passing of time could be an illusion.
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00:00:01 There's an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.
00:03:02 But they used the world around them to keep time extremely precisely.
00:05:50 As the earth rotates, the sun, moon and stars move across the sky
00:08:44 Thanks.
00:10:50 or the friction on the surface of the earth, they then slow down or speed up the solid part of the earth.
00:13:36 The atomic nucleus sits there and electrons sit in orbit around the nucleus.
00:16:06 Well, not quite.
00:19:25 It's a difficult picture almost to comprehend, isn't it?
00:21:39 And, suddenly, we run out.
00:24:27 the universe continues to expand.
00:26:43 Time began at the Big Bang, time zero.
00:29:20 The first concrete model we could come up with, coming out of
00:31:50 'unseen dimensions of space, it's challenging stuff.
00:34:31 Cut!
00:36:54 Have you ever wondered
00:39:28 You're not kidding.
00:42:06 It's a really profound way of understanding Einstein's theory of space time.
00:44:48 But applying Einstein's theory
00:47:09 These fearsome phenomena are black holes.
00:49:41 If you want to know what's special about time
00:52:01 So your birth would be here and your death would be there, and there's your life, and it just sits there.
00:54:43 then what we experience as, say, the interval of a second
00:57:06 "What time is it?" is a profound question
91:03:06 one step at the top to make 365.