How Your Brain Makes Time Pass Fast or Slow

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Time passes for all of us at the same rate of one second per second. But why does it sometimes feel like time is passing so fast, or so slowly? Especially during COVID? Let’s learn about how our brains keep track of and try to make sense of time, and how they get fooled.
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[@besmart]

Have you been feeling COVID time? WHAT DAY IS IT?! Let me know how you're feeling, and come find me on Instagram and Twitter: @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart

[@guiorgy]

Times going too fast. It feels like this whole covid thing only started a month ago.

[@dandi-lion33]

@@guiorgy ikr

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

It is Tuesday, the 1st of September 2020

[@JacobTorres]

You’re a boss

[@dandi-lion33]

@@miscellaneoussarnian5282 yupp Ber months!

[@Opscot]

2020 felt like both a 100 years and a month has passed

[@gjk-arts5855]

Doom Slayer Janurary,February, half of March normal time Quarantine months 100000000000 years and 1 second has gone by

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Funtime Florian same, Quarantine made me depressed

[@thestonedsith7590]

@Funtime Florian same

[@otakuman706]

@J LA I didn't realize it was September until your comment....

[@fareehaxoxo8568]

Lol

[@cassandracrakes532]

“How is it September already.” I nodded to agree with him and realized... It's November.

[@erinium19]

I came to the comments to say that.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I didn't even register it! ( *forehead slap*)

[@acharya1574]

It's november

[@acharya1574]

it's december now

[@jabagas620]

dude I did the same thing and when I read the comment I was like "Oh crap it is November," then I read the comment that said "It's December" and I was like "OH CRAP IT IS DECEMBER!"

[@educostanzo]

When he said it's September I thought "yeah, how come it's September already?" only to realize a moment later that it's actually November.

[@CL-je6sv]

December now

[@user-cp5wh7us9z]

February

[@huntfamily9773]

May

[@minisnowballuwu4324]

June

[@Scott-got-caught]

July 2021

[@DarkLadyPhoenix]

Had a person call in on my call center Friday. Told a familiar story, so I said, "Yes, that was me who spoke with you yesterday." Only I couldn't find where the call had come in on yesterday's table. After some digging, we're both stunned for a minute to find out I had talked to her that Tuesday and both of us were missing like two days of time.

[@Poetry4Peace]

Woow

[@PRDreams]

My husband just asked "where are the avocados that we got yesterday" We got them 4 days ago... 🤣

[@sambishara9300]

To be fair, Avocados are great.

[@mogur00]

the question does remain though

[@Equa11ysurl]

But where are the avocados?

[@PRDreams]

@@Equa11ysurl I'll never tell 😈😂🤣

[@connor863]

Dang 🤣

[@talhajobayer9863]

Man I missed you so much it feels like years...

[@ChuckMeIntoHell]

Ba dum, tsss

[@PiotrKaszuba8403]

The same..

[@minelaxt1712]

For .e it felt like a day

[@connorredding]

Thanks man, you too

[@mohammadabdulahad61]

Ki khobor vai?

[@Samos900]

I’ve noticed this!! Whenever I move into a new environment, days feel like forever then once I get used to a new routine, time passes by much quicker! I like this explanation better than the “time speeds up as we age” theory which states time speeds up because for every year we live, one year becomes a smaller fraction of a whole (lifetime)

[@shazuvai]

Yeah that’s damn true. This month i realised that time passed quicker from 2020 when I got my own phone and using it more often. My 2022 also went very fast bcz I attended 8 hrs schl and 2 coachings each day and I came back at night and slept . I think this made my 2022 run fast…. I always came home at 8 o clock daily after schl and coaching which let me stay out of free times…

[@varvaramir]

"at a constant rate of 1 second per second" ah yes the floor here is made out of floor

[@NewMessage]

"Hey smart people..." But... what about the rest of us? * tries to take a sip of his soda, and pokes himself in the eye with the straw *

[@cornlips7247]

Hey we can watch as well he is just not talking to us. 🤣 Fantastic comment btw.

[@epiphanyy146]

Ur comment is awesome and your name is even awesome - er

[@ShadowManceri]

I learned after second time not to use straw if I'm going to sip it. Now the problem is that without eyes I just pour the drink to my lap while trying to sip.

[@NewMessage]

I think we just figured out why smart people wear glasses! * puts on shades to test the theory, and stabs himself in the nostril with the straw *

[@aaveey]

This does not apply to me because I don't use straws but it's funny

[@Nick_Slavik]

"What! Day is it?" "It's Monday................." I dunno why, but I found that soooo damn funny! Hahah

[@Nick_Slavik]

Haha 68 likes for this? Thanks everybody!

[@peterw1534]

What do you do with the likes?

[@Nick_Slavik]

@@peterw1534 not sure, I just find it funny that my comment had 68 likes and is now up to 74. Never had a comment get any likes in the past lol

[@peterw1534]

@@Nick_Slavik here's another one then

[@jasonalangriffin]

“What” day is it? She barks like a chihuahua

[@solo-angel]

This rotating globe is very annoying and anxiety-envoking.

[@HornOKPlease]

I know right!

[@DiTinman]

I agree !.

[@nachinathan3846]

Then don't watch it

[@junkmail4613]

@@nachinathan3846 1 month ago,, "Then don't watch it" Do anything you want, "JUST DON'T THINK OF THE COLOR GREEN!!!"

[@Poetry4Peace]

@@junkmail4613 ur dp makes green too easy to 🤔 of 👅

[@PaladinNay]

I always figured time seemed slower as a kid because we had less time to compare it to. Like, one month as a 27-year-old doesn't seem like a huge amount of time, but when you're 6 years old one month is a much larger percent of your total life up to that point.

[@furqanbaba5274]

Joe: count 7 seconds Me a drummer: 7 quater notes at 60 BPM. Nailed it

[@BigDaddyWes]

Yeah musicians are better at estimating that. Plus 120 bpm is a very common tempo so it's quite easy to count out close to a second if you're intimate with that speed. 60bpm is quite slow though. Almost as slow as we can recognize as an actual beat.

[@furqanbaba5274]

@@BigDaddyWes to be honest I was counting 16th notes

[@Algo1]

yeah, my quarter notes weren't even but I stopped dead on.

[@ralfier1]

Having music to listen to during the counting made it easier. Musician here, too.

[@nahuelma97]

I'm not even a drummer but I know a song that's 66bpm so always use it as a reference lol

[@rickseiden1]

I remember when my first child was born, my wife was not progressing, so they had her hooked up to a machine that monitored her contractions more than normal. I sat in front of that machine, at my wife's bedside, and watched it. It seemed like an eternity between contractions. But the whole experience went by very fast. I experienced each moment in slow motion (as much as Joe will allow me to say that), but the entire experience on fast forward. About kids experiencing time slower, I've heard a different idea. If you look at an 8 year old child, the time between their 7th and 8th birthdays is 12.5% of their life. If you look at a 50 year old adult, the time between their 49th and 50th birthdays is only 2% of their life.

[@American-Plague]

I have also heard this explanation in reference to why childhood seems so long.

[@anuragchakraborty3432]

Logarithmic progression.

[@itsnotyasir]

This was debunked once and in that video they explained what really happens. Your brain has constant activity but with time and age, this activity slows down ever so slightly but considerably. So say for example you experience 50 pulses per second in your brain when you're a teen but experience 48 during your adulthood. But 50 pulses is what your brain recognises as 1 second. What feels like 1 sec for you when you're an adult is actually 1 + a very small fraction. I'll share the video here if I ever find it.

[@itsnotyasir]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3rbY4Fjq86Brbs found it!!!

[@rickseiden1]

@@itsnotyasir I wouldn't say that video debunks the "percentage of life" idea. Derick didn't provide any clinical studies that show otherwise. But, he made some very good points, and I have a lot of respect for Derick, so I can put aside my confirmation bias and say that his explanation is more likely than the "percentage of life" idea. (I was never really "married" to the idea, anyway. It was something I had heard before, so I shared it as an story. I never meant for it to be presented as fact.)

[@madiboggs6385]

I was going to therapy the first half of quarantine, i was telling him how time felt like it was going by so fast. He was very confused at that, looking back i thrived in quarantine. I was going on runs every morning, doing yoga every night, cleaning my eating, lessening my spending and going out in nature more. AND raking in unemployment. I felt so good i dropped my therapist. Best decision ever. I miss it honestly.

[@magnusemeritus]

I counted to 7 in my head and hit the mark PERFECTLY! Man, that was satisfying!!!

[@user-em8fq2ev4b]

I was way off on the 7s... Then i realized, I was watching at 2x speed...

[@x._.5295]

Oh thanks, I was wondering why I was off too😭

[@stegnosis]

Glad to meet a fellow 2x champion

[@kevin3434343434]

2x crew checking in

[@paddor]

You guys in a hurry or something?

[@rakshas1340]

god damn same i thought "am i that bad ?", thank you

[@frankhernandezb.6833]

0:11 "at a constant rate of one second per second" Insert "Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa" meme

[@user-rw9no4vt7e]

LMAOOO

[@helencobler]

Every 60 seconds in africa 60 seconds pass

[@yuvrajkumar2048]

Wait One second per second is equal to 1sec/1sec Will not the they cut each other? So the answer will be 1?

[@stritax9478]

@@yuvrajkumar2048 he means to say that the time duration of 1 second completes in, well... 1 second

[@joshuaschertzer7133]

Honestly since reflecting on time since March, I feel like a completely different person. I truly think quarantine has changed me as a person. It feels like years ago hearing my professors say “guys you might wanna take your things home with you in case we don’t come to school next week”

[@Ritaaw1]

Thank you for mentioning ptsd. When I was depressed, days felt super long and I hated it. It felt like it was too much for me. Honestly though I didn’t even sleep back then so it gave me extra hours to the day. Now when I don’t have depression, time goes by so much faster and I am super happy about it.

[@Ritaaw1]

Even when I walked a 500 meter trip from the bus stop to home, it felt like it was too long and I wanted to lay down in the ground. I can’t believe I was thinking about doing that, laying on my own yard on the wet ground when my apartment was right there.

[@leithscrumhalf4143]

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." Groucho Marx

[@purplefire2834]

Someday, time is going to suddenly stop. Thump.

[@perfectibility999]

I hate it when I'm doing archery and times flies keep landing on my arrows.

[@stevesteaven8349]

Wait, that's what that zilean quote is from. Not sure why I wouldn't have just looked up the quote.

[@dorjjodvo1992]

Somehow I thought this was a play on words like "fruit flies landing on banana" 😂

[@zyaicob]

@@dorjjodvo1992 it is a play on words, it's called a Crash Blossom

[@queenkerry-ann8096]

Scrolling through Pinterest and waiting for something in the microwave are two different speeds of time

[@mattmobilee]

It's now close to being year 2022, covid is still raging and to me it feels like it's still year 2020

[@eggsisinsanity]

Dude same 😅

[@lucianocasanova8924]

It really shows years are legit a human social construct eh?

[@billionairestash7972]

Same and kinda feel sad too it's my last years of high school which i always looked forward to make new memories but everything is doomed I am sad ......and i Don't even know if i will be friends with whom I am friends right now in the future.

[@KidPrarchord95]

@@billionairestash7972 Hey, chin up! Everything is gonna work out just fine.

[@bizarreness]

and it blew up again in 2022

[@olaj3050]

7:51 I think this way of looking at time is my favourite. The older you get the higher you are on this huge mountain. And when you look down you can see your past which may seem tempting but you don't give up and keep going higher.

[@TraceDominguez]

I LOVE the idea of time being akin to terrain or physical location. Time definitely feels like it's "behind" me, but I really like the idea of time being uphill… I gotta WORK to get to that future! Thanks, Joe!

[@besmart]

Love that!

[@chickeninabox]

It's downwords for me.

[@robertt9342]

Moving into the future often feels more like rolling down a hill.

[@SamanthaBartonYAY]

make yourself a conlang and employ that

[@conlon4332]

But you can't roll back down the hill... and the future is coming whatever you do. If you sit at home doing nothing, or go out and do something, even if you go into a coma or even die, time's not going to wait for you. It will keep going at the same rate regardless of _anything,_ anything at all, to do with you or anyone else. If the entire human race fell unconscious, and even if they never woke up, _time wouldn't change._ Not actual time. Nothing we do can change it. You can't go down the hill and you can't stop going up, which doesn't sound at all like an actual hill. If anything, it works better the other way around.

[@noncsi121]

The dot on the i in Jeremy Bearimy

[@abigail4269]

LOL 😂

[@musaddiqmunirliman8267]

Take it sleazy

[@amehak1922]

The dot broke my mind, I'm broken.

[@sirim5058]

Why did I also think of this

[@Kevin-um1nq]

@@sirim5058 pretty sure they did it on purpose, its the exact same line

[@LaylaVaughan]

For me this year has felt really fast, despite being stressful. My sleep pattern was totally destroyed, sometimes sleeping until 10 PM, sometimes being awake for over a day. The result is that days sometimes seem to pass like minutes and it kind of sucks because I feel like I have lost so much time just from how fast it goes.

[@ricobhi]

During this whole video, I was working myself up to write a comment noting the absence of any Jeremy Bearimy reference. And then, to my absolute delight, it finally came. My faith remains unbroken.

[@anaksamanananggal3940]

Joe: "why Tuesdays feels like it's July" Me: *why September feels like it's January*

[@joerionis5902]

Why and hour feels like 10 minutes?

[@megelizabeth9492]

It's the dot in the i of the Jeremy Bearimy.

[@chrism6880]

Why does Saturday taste like purple?

[@Alfred1035]

Maybe because you’re in school it’s the beginning of the school year. And summer just feel like a big holiday just ended

[@mrkalenda4911]

So this comment was made 2 years agoooo and we are in September 2022 lolll

[@JonathanMickelson]

You know it is COVID when IOTBS is filled with binge-worthy show references... "Rick Sanchez, I'd like you to meet my friend Jeremy Bearimy."

[@dorjjodvo1992]

Can't wait for season 5

[@MaraMara89]

@@dorjjodvo1992 Season 5 of what?

[@erazn9077]

@@MaraMara89 Rick and Morty from adult swim Oh and the Jeremy Bearimy bit is from a show called The Good Place

[@nahuelma97]

Did he actually say that? I love TGP and didn't notice it lol

[@JonathanMickelson]

@@nahuelma97 Yeah! In the last three words of the video in the ending/outro he says, "Jeremy Bearimy Baby."

[@CrescentPaws5000]

Me who has adhd and has never had a sense of time wait having a sense of time is normal

[@LaynieFingers]

Covid hasn't really affected my sense of time, mainly because I'm disabled and don't work. My sense of time has been screwed for years!

[@madpetal1157]

Same here! Times felt like this for ages, sometimes I worry because my life has been like this for years and hasn't changed during the pandemic and everyone is saying how much of an impact its had on their mental health.

[@mikahkilgore4972]

I am in a similar situation. Covid hasn’t really changed my life much.

[@foxiefair123]

I’m disabled, too, and I don’t work outside my house nor do I go places very often, yet I feel like time passes extremely fast and I never get everything done at home no matter what.😂I wonder why…

[@LaynieFingers]

@@foxiefair123 Yes, I know that feeling.

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

January - July: lasts 2 seconds August - December: lasts 10000 years

[@bhazinumbr]

To me it's the opposite, once you hit September, you are already in Christmas

[@fishplays1364]

EXACTLYYYY

[@BlitheDream]

May - August 10000 years September- April 5 seconds

[@alejotassile6441]

it's the opposite for me

[@Jhiltz45]

For me it is the other way around

[@rockyreyes9320]

We are stuck in the dot over the I in Jeremy bearimy. I love the reference to one of my favorite shows ever The Good Place!

[@antifern0]

When we have a listening test in class and we can listen to it twice, the second time listening always seems shorter! This video explains it, because the experience isn’t ‘new’ anymore.

[@Sariellxo]

I’ve been experiencing this and didn’t know how to sum it up in words. This video explained exactly what I been feeling since COVID-19 hit and we all been stuck at home. The days go by slow but at the same time time is flying faster than before. Strange but true.

[@artpacsol]

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the last second before you can skip youtube publicity is way longer.

[@carinacorrea1976]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jayjones7485]

top comment

[@shanusays]

Exception: musicians. We keep time with a 60bpm tempo.

[@Madeline_Mahoney_25]

Yep

[@stephenmusic69420]

I use a 120bpm tempo but i halftime the snare

[@shanusays]

@CHARITY DAZLEY musicians train themselves to get a sense of time passing. So does many other occupations/sports. That's the point here.

[@araecieon]

Can confirm. I know exactly how many minutes days months I’ve been out of work.

[@helllife0210]

But they are superhumans

[@gretatodorova9929]

I shared this with my students! And since they are getting it in a scence subject, I am highly appreciative of the references that you have inclued. It is such a nice way to give them a little bit of fun but packed with scientific backing! Thank you for the extra efforts !

[@KidPrarchord95]

Thank you for educating the youth. Your services are appreciated.

[@emiliecoteb7]

This is how I experienced time when I had a depression. In fact, at the very start I thought I had it again because some things where so similar like the experience of time, the isolation and the feeling of grief. I'm sorry you all have to experience a little bit of what it feels like to be depressed but I'm happy it's new to most of you.

[@mr.boomguy]

The perpetual spinning globe at the start, desturbed me more then it should have xD

[@_shooshosha]

It would've been less distracting without that "whooshing" sound effect playing constantly.

[@beanzwasps]

popetual

[@strya27]

I am forever sacred

[@mr.boomguy]

@@beanzwasps Was you try to correct me? Cuss we wrote it both whrong xD

[@mr.boomguy]

@@EcoHotdogJust did so before you said it

[@danielsaysallonsy]

Whoever's idea it was to drop a Good Place reference in the title of this video...I see you and I appreciate you.

[@quin2910]

Damn I don't get it

[@donnamariedemaio]

This is brilliant! Why am I just finding this program now?! God bless PBS!

[@SuperManning11]

For a minute I thought this was going to go the way of the 7 day week video, but it ended up staying ‘on the rails’ so to speak. The 7 day week video remains my all-time favorite.

[@Ari-iq6uj]

When Joe said "point to the past" I got all confused thinking, "you cant point to the past..."

[@cheeseriners]

I pointed left.... Prolly too much 2 dimensional math in my life :D

[@nahuelma97]

Loool me too, I was like "what? You can't"

[@Madeline_Mahoney_25]

Same

[@fluffywolf6300]

Invalid dimension. Abort, Retry, Fail?

[@tediousgeorge7159]

@@cheeseriners Same, but I blame Mario Bros.

[@dragonfury1565]

The fact that he actually posted this on a Tuesday, also i experience “covid time” all the time, even during not quarantine I rarely go outside, corona barely changed anything for me

[@doglover33246]

he posted it on my birfday

[@dragonfury1565]

andermander1 Nice, happy birthday

[@doglover33246]

@@dragonfury1565 thanks m8

[@xexpaguette]

@@doglover33246 happy birthday, it's my dad's birthday too so yay, covid cake tastes good

[@conan2650]

Happy Birthday bro

[@DrexYiii]

Oh my god, the people saying times been slower in 2020, covid was new, when I watched anime for the first time, new experience, thats why is lasted so long. My god I love this channel

[@GM-qi8pw]

so this is why when I watch gif's, then the second time I watch it feels like it took 20% or so Shorter, especially the beginnings. like a gif that was around 10 seconds. then upon the second time, it feels like it took about 8 seconds.

[@creamy_croissant]

Joe: "In Vietnamese... - the 'before time' which is known to us and seen clearly in our memories - is in front of us, not behind us..." Me being a Vietnamese: "What is he talking about?" I have no idea.

[@chukhali]

Same here

[@thongtran4640]

I mean he means “Hom truoc” and “Hom sau”. Truoc is In front of, Sau is Behind.

[@kd8543]

Thien Vu Could you help to explain please?

[@melloboiyoiy7658]

Me neither

[@nahuelma97]

He also made reference to South America using in front and behind for past and future respectively and I've no idea lol

[@Scientastica]

Time feels so slow during this pandemic as well, videos like this is what keep us going :)

[@Dirge4july]

If times moving to slow for you then time for a new hobby. Summer flew by way to quick for me.

[@Scientastica]

@@Dirge4july lucky you! I did pick up a couple of hobbies, still! it's slower than usual during these depressing times.

[@TravisPluss]

This. I’ve been telling my family the exact same thing. I’ve been practicing making new experiences for myself so I can appreciate time more.

[@keimakatsuragi1705]

As you said the perception of time differs by emotion but if a person is not only used to but actually not affected by it through adapting you are able to act and feel happy.

[@gowzahr]

Listening to this while driving, the past really is behind me.

[@teo6990]

2:21 poor Morty

[@L1lmab3ans]

0:50 that news clip had me cracking up lol

[@katiobrien7854]

I just love your videos. Presentation makes learning really interesting.

[@b3nsu]

The dot on the i..... that broke me, I'm done

[@thatoneparticularsquid8311]

I had to scroll for far too long to find a comment about the good place

[@b3nsu]

@@thatoneparticularsquid8311 its a sad world

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

It took me a moment to figure out, but that's Rick pushing Morty off a building.

[@bombelz]

There is also a great motivation in this: if seeing/learning new things prolongs our perceived time passage, learning can at least extend your perceived time on earth

[@harshsable5286]

You gave answers to my all questions, thanks

[@Adamimoka]

8:21 “We are living through a massive global experiment.” Conspiracy theorists: *hmmmm...*

[@NickFisherman]

I remember trying to explain to my grandparents that they would literally live longer if they sought out new experiences, and picked up hobbies. They never understood.

[@pattsw]

Probably because they wouldn't literally live longer, they would just experience it more slowly.

[@NickFisherman]

@@pattsw not true. If you give up on life, life gives up on you. When an elderly person deliberately stops being able to experience joy, they literally die faster.

[@MarcusCollins69]

@@NickFisherman maybe they were just tired of living I know I'm getting there already

[@NickFisherman]

@@MarcusCollins69 real sweet of you to suggest that a stranger's loved ones wanted to die. You must be a therapist, or a hostage negotiator.

[@MarcusCollins69]

@@NickFisherman no, I'm 17

[@badrmukhtar809]

Man that news reporter reminded me that it really WAS Monday and I have a train to catch. Saved my life!!

[@tabledrawzz801]

I opened my eyes at the exact moment he told us to open our eyes. I'm not a musician or anything. I just practiced way too many times in front of the microwave

[@yogurt5280]

Lmao the title is a "The Good Place" reference. 10/10

[@xponen]

???

[@Epiccatqueen-un1ew]

I watched the good place who knows how many times before the pandemic but I have no idea what the reference was. Probably because it feels like over approximately 4.7 years

[@magdaghirma]

Did he change it?

[@conlon4332]

Did the title change?

[@a-stark3]

wot?

[@jenidesai9248]

Mind blowing 😮 thank you for explaining the concept so well!

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@indianministryofilluminati3531]

You are the one who made me addicted to biology. I love biology.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

4:18 Me having more time to play the backlog of videogames I have been meaning to play.

[@huntersadventuresfreeyourm7459]

Thank you❤I needed this. I feel a little more alive now. I love your information.

[@comradeopthomasthehedgehog]

Thank you! I’ve been looking for this!

[@BakedPhoria]

"Between a past we can remember and a future which we cannot" how crazy would it be to remember your future

[@conlon4332]

Ooh! I think that happened in Doctor Who though. Something about memories trickling down along your timeline or something, and that's what déjà vu is. I think it's when I dreamt about something similar.

[@Gamerdude753]

In the King Arthur legends Merlin lived backwards in time. The future was the past for him and the past was the future for him. In other words he remembered the future but the past was all new to him.

[@anurati2441]

The movie Arrival explains this quite well, check it out!

[@Christine.Baraka]

That would be called déjà vu...but is it real or just an illusion?? 👀

[@nahuelma97]

Arrival much?

[@kyoza5069]

3:07 Heck yeah, a Pip-Boy! Also that Neil DeGrasse-Tyson quip was golden 😂😂

[@jaytoussaint9598]

Your videos are refreshing. ❤️

[@DenajM25]

The exact reason why going back through the same path seems faster.

[@arm4ix]

When I was coming onto an MDMA experience there was a minute or 2 when everything was sped up, as in the video part when it's sped up (even the pitch of sounds was higher). My perception was the same, it was simply that everything around me was sped up. It wasn't a memory glitch, it happened in actual time. It freaked me tf out.

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

4:18 "While those who felt happy... How?" xD

[@JeroenJA]

cause they own amazon?

[@mystique8134]

Most relevant and up to date video this year

[@lunaumbra5179]

This was soo good. The humor was perfect

[@jonathanarthuritoaldisinag573]

I love it when neil comes to interrupt and explain general relativity

[@steveguzman6141]

He forgot Neils mustache tho

[@rainstriderstreamflower5645]

When I"m in a lot of pain 15 minutes can feel like a half an hour! One time I was in so much pain, that 5 minute literally felt like 15!

[@cheaterman49]

6:20 That was a great cameo hahaha, very "à propos", and in case it wasn't actually Neil's voice, props to the impersonation :-)

[@annaz7996]

It finally hit me. You're Bill Nye the science guy for adults.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

6:11 the face on animated Neils face 😂😂priceless

[@minhtrivo143]

In Vietnam, there’s a term called “Nhìn lại quá khứ”, which’s directly translated into “Looking back at the past”, and “Hướng tới tương lai” - “Looking forward into the future”. And in my experience, I always think the past is behind me and the future is ahead of me. So I quite disagree to what he said at 7:36. Good video, just a minor nitpick. (Sorry for my bad English)

[@drkmn3112]

I think what he meant was the past is "trước đó" and future is "sau đó", it's depend on the context. Also Joe & team are foreigners and phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam mà 😁😁

[@American-Plague]

"Sorry for my bad English." WHAT?! Your (written) English is better than a lot of native speakers!

[@joyalpatel6000]

drkmn3112 When we use which we do not add ‘a’s’

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

This episode is sooooo freggin awesome!!!!

[@zema9401]

Neil was perfectly implemented. He just swooped into a space no one ask him to enter and explained stuff that kinda is related to the topic but still has no place in the situation. All that while trying to sound as smart as possible.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

My theory on the "why does time pass faster when you're older" is simple: each given moment is a smaller percent of your total life/memory when you're older. When you're four years old, trying to remember something that happened a year ago - that's 25% of your total life! That's a significant chunk of all your memories! When you're 100 years old, trying to remember something that happened a year ago is only 1% of your total life. A much smaller chunk of all your memories. Your perception of "a year" is 1%, not 25%.

[@peterw1534]

"Your" theory is well know and has been around long before you

[@gqsmooth1969]

While this theory has some merit, it more about novelty. Your brain is hardwired to focus on new information as a defense mechanism. The more new information recieved, the more vivid the memory.

[@thebigksmoosey]

I've always thought the same thing.

[@hassassinator8858]

When you're so early that all the comments are saying how early they are

[@samthegreatman]

lol

[@gabor6259]

People should realize there is this magical thing called not commenting.

[@hassassinator8858]

@@lemomar (⌐■-■)

[@rolfs2165]

@@gabor6259 You're not wrong, but comments count as interaction for the algorithm, pushing a video's rating higher and making it more likely to be suggested to people who might not follow the channel yet.

[@gabor6259]

@@rolfs2165 KZbin's algorithm is of poor design then.

[@ReadTheSash]

Wonderful video! :) Thanks for posting

[@agibbson6463]

Great explanation! 😊

[@kittybeans8192]

6:25 well I was confused as to how to point in space to time but I mean alright I guess I'll just uhh point...

[@ce4072]

I was also thinking left.

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

I just didn't point at all.

[@DogsaladSalad]

7:55 (unexpectedly terrifying closeup) LOOK AT THESE DOTS

[@A_ldo..]

I remember you from “so you want to go to mars?” I miss 7th grade....

[@michaelaallanson4971]

Lock down was the happiest 5 months of my life. It went by too quickly for me

[@Titanic-wo6bq]

we're still on lockdown.

[@michaelaallanson4971]

@@Titanic-wo6bq OK lockdown one. I didn't get to stay furloughed after the UKs first lockdown.

[@laasya6144]

Hey Joe! Love your vids! I just impressed my science teacher and that is what I call an achievement with your vids! Thanks!

[@kazerjoshua]

JEREMY BEREMY

[@bea19gle]

You forgot the lower case i

[@maddy-jd7qi]

@@bea19gle literally can't even have the title of this video without the i

[@anadoesthings2999]

@@mnarsete52 its a reference to a show called The Good Place on netflix. I won't spoil it for you, the show's very good!

[@megelizabeth9492]

To be more specific, it's the way time in the afterlife is explained on the show.

[@JReynolds09]

Thanks! God Bless.

[@ellenjessica2414]

4:29 LOL we love and support u hardworking dads n moms