Time | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies

In this episode, the team discusses time with theoretical physicist and host of the Mindscape podcast, Sean Carroll.
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[@SkateSka]

"I thought I was ready" is such a perfect intro for a Time episode.

[@cirick1696]

Great guest, Sean Carrol is a great guest to snag with an awesome podcast of his own (The Mindscape Podcast).

[@emdiar6588]

Goddamn it Jim... I'm not sure you got the props you deserved in this one. Your explanation of time in one short and eminently quotable phrase is nothing if not superbly profound. John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist : "Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than “time.”. Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future" Jim Jefferies, accidental genius : "Time is the distance of existence". Talk about a "hold my beer..." moment. It really is low-key brilliant.

[@valgeirg]

Good stuff. This episode needed an extra hour!

[@turnerwright]

Time IS an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

[@craigroaring]

Time is natures way of stopping everything from happening at once.

[@DeGen0080]

Best intro yet

[@distantcoff7391]

Awesome guest and extremely informative. Great show thanks Forrest, Jack, Jim and Kelly 👍😄😁🌅🌏🌍🌎🌅

[@ianbett3853]

We love you Jim! 🙂🇦🇺👍

[@gringo6797]

🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺love every episode. Awesome banter, comic genius & learning something new is a bonus ... give'em what they want. ❤❤

[@keifwoki]

Kelly you're on fire in this ep!! 🤣👍

[@cajoz]

Yes! I was hoping it was Sean when I saw the title. My two favorite podcasters together.

[@drmojo5439]

Same

[@Artsy1987]

Like Brian Greene, Brian Cox, and few others, Sean is a great communicator of theoretical physics. I do think that there was a lack of follow-up questions on a difficult topic as TIME (hence, how short this episode was). Good job Kelly for throwing out some questions at the end, however you could see that most people did not understand Sean's answers and took little effort to clarify. Regardless of my comment, this is a great podcast, and I watched every episode over the past year!

[@cajoz]

Agree. love IDKAT and Sean, but thought this was a lost opportunity, both to ask some questions about some mind-blowing stuff, regardless of the complexity of the answers, plus the potential for comedic riffs on the nature of time and could have branched off (no pun intended) into the Many Worlds theory. But I think the IDKAT crew failed to capitalize on this one. I mean, most guests have been great, but they had one of the greatest minds going around, and he hardly talked. C'mon guys, recognize when you have Sean Carroll at your disposal.

[@claysanford2648]

Thanks so Much!!@@@@!!! LOVE u guys

[@miket4560]

Awe man, Jim Jeffries was in Edmonton and I had no idea. As a long time fan I regret not following your tour dates. I might have to come ur way now. I'm good to travel so we'll see. Thanks for the show. Alberta 🇨🇦

[@user-oj9sv4vx6o]

Jack's best comment yet...."time zones are just jerrymandering"

[@Mato2530]

Forrest, to solve your dust issue try cleaning the filter in your vacuum on the regular.

[@lameSHlT]

Topic is Time, and it's one of the shortest episodes 🥲.

[@AxeMan808]

That's some MEAN time alright!

[@galesito1733]

This was a very interesting one.

[@emdiar6588]

"Time is an illusion... Lunchtime, doubly so" - Douglas Adams.

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

Looking forward to your ADELAIDE show Jim. Kept my ticket :) Adelaide Smoke is still tops ;)

[@conspicuoustraverser7375]

I'm here, on time and in time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time.

[@russellmitchell1579]

Time doesn't exit. It's linear. Basically constructed intervals of 6. Seasons & Celestial events

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

Agreed. But if I fight someone who's in reverse I'm gonna assume sometime in the future I've had my entropy reversed and I'll try to reason with myself. I better have my phone or radio on me. Eh? Lol

[@sativarosegold3604]

Being someone who believes in other realms/afterlife my halfbrained theory is we experience the phenomena of time here on a major delay so powers that be can more easily intervene on our behalf or nudge us in a direction when necessary without eliminating our free will. But 100 years here would be like the blink of an eye there by all accounts of those who purport to have esoteric knowledge

[@williamcalkins2733]

Quantum Leap, now that was a good show

[@pqrstsma2011]

is this the first time Forrest's given us a peek of what's under his hat?

[@holdencaulfield8429]

Oh hey! Do low hanging fruit next!

[@mikkoliukko]

Is the bookmark always in same place

[@TheKilgoth]

I enjoy these podcasts jim. You are funny as fuck but also are real. I appreciate that.

[@Chelsea_Jo]

Every time I go on a road trip, the drive there always feels longer than the drive home...

[@Max_Flashheart]

44:00 Jim Jefferies had his watch taken by the Greenwich Mean Time Agency. Starring Anytime Now and Zepto Second with guest star Tachyon Early

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Every wrestling fan knows May 19th!

[@davemick7216]

The deck of cards thing Jim said sounded legit, 52 cards/52 weeks, 4 suits/4 seasons, but then he said 12 months/12 cards per suit... nope, there are 13 cards per suit 52 ÷ 4 = 13, not 12. Minus a point!

[@MattBlack6]

Fuckin' hell Jim. I have had to pause the podcast and listen to Tenterfield Saddler because of you.

[@DedJezter]

Just a quick note: In "Back to the future," at the end, The present that Marty returns to is not the present he left from. Twin Pines to Lone Pine. It doesn't stay on the same plane as Jim says. Also LOST gets it pretty right as well, everything that happens happens and you in the past is your current present, if you change the past, it just changes the way events play out but goes back to the same time line.

[@Ketraar]

Well Back to the Future does the old school time travel trope where they just conveniently change some stuff. For example, they just changed the success their family had, but one could argue that now that McFly got confident he decided to pursue another carrier, then meat another girl and married her instead. Or they had 4 kinds instead of 3, or Biff moved away to another town. But no they lived in same house, Marty went to the same school and had same girlfriend, so saying its not the same present is indeed accurate, but misleading since the movie wanted to imply its the same but better and not really explore the "butterfly effect". Also don't get me started on the getting transparent thing, loved that movie but its rather silly, from a science point (which is fine).

[@cajoz]

Anton Petrov on his channel talked about the possibility of time travel recently. Yeah, so maybe you can change things in the past, but you would then carry on in another timeline. The one you change is a different one from that which from you travelled. Still, just theoretical.

[@Ketraar]

@@cajoz Would that not also imply that the "past" you visit is then not the same past since you being there changes the timeline already? Would it then really be visiting the past? PS.: Also how would you solve the grandfather paradox even with a alternate timeline?

[@cajoz]

@@Ketraar Hey man, I have no idea....visit Anton's channel. But, as I understand it, you can evade those paradoxes as long as you get to another timeline...oh, wait, yeah, grandfather paradox...damn..again, go to Anton. He recently had a tragedy in his life and it's also a tragedy he doesn't have more followers. So he is, for many reasons, a man to go to. You'll understand when you go to his channel.

[@frankiethewaffle2476]

Twin Pines was changed to Lone Pine because Marty plowed over one of them immediately as he went back in time to the farm land that became the Mall.

[@joesikic6531]

Time seems to go faster as you get older. At ten years old 5 years is 50% of your life time. At 100 years old 5 years is 5% of your life time.

[@jefffoy530]

Fuck, this rings so true. I was literally thinking about this the other day. Enjoy it while it lasts!!

[@hondatuner5156]

I died once before for about 3 minutes before I was resuscitated... I can tell u right now from my experience it is instantaneous, it was just from there to nothing. And then all the sudden there again

[@lrod6923]

🤔 I'm confused. I remember having seen a video about atomic clocks on airplanes reading differently because of their position and velocity. They placed the atomic clocks in planes and flew the planes at the same speed going with the earths rotation, against and kept one stationary on the ground. After looking it up google keeps sending me to the topic of time dilation and the 1971 Hafele-Keating experiments that apparently proved Einsteins theory of special relativity. So why does he say this at 54:00?🤔

[@chrisleonardi712]

17:28. I started a slow clap…

[@a5ym]

This guy intentionally sounds like hawking translator

[@qwertyuiopgarth]

However, different stars are moving at different velocities, and different planets are also moving at different velocities and in deeper or more shallow gravity wells. Thus people traveling between star systems who have _extremely accurate_ watches will need to _slightly_ adjust their watches when they get to their destination.

[@TheSteveBoyd]

Jim's answer about wrinkles was right. If it weren't for entropy, time would be irrelevant.

[@sajxcape2655]

This guy's voice sounds like that mojo top 10 voice, so robotic lol

[@wakeupbell2491]

Regarding Jim's printer comment: My son bought a $50 HP printer when he was in high school. Six years later, I am still using it. I also had a workhorse of a Brother printer/scanner/copier that lasted over a dozen years. It was there when I bought my business, and when I closed my business, I sold the printer. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still running.

[@Wild_Danimal]

I bought that printer. It broke the day you sold it to me, my life is ruined and I will never financially recover from this

[@wakeupbell2491]

@@Wild_Danimal lol.

[@joesikic6531]

What about the atomic clock on earth vs atomic clock on an airplane flying very fast?

[@canaans1]

I saw the title and was like....... please be Sean Carroll

[@JBond-zf4dj]

I'm using this opportunity to plug a time travel book series I'm reading! The Chronicles of St Mary's is about time travelling historians. Jodi Taylor is the author, British humour - great series! She has a new spin off series called The Time Police.

[@RexKraemer73]

Thanks, let me do one as well, "Making History" by Stephen Fry, in wich he has a good point why, if Hitler never would have been born, it doesn't automatically mean the world would have been a better place.

[@craigroaring]

Seems to me that eternalism is the same as determinism, in which the future is preordained. That would eliminate freewill.

[@sativarosegold3604]

There can be both. Sort of like a choose your own adventure book. You can go down a preordained path meant for your soul or you can go off course with free will. You can be meant for greatness but fuck it all up

[@craigroaring]

@@sativarosegold3604 But if you can choose to "go off course", the future isn't preordained. If the future is preordained, no-one who has fucked up would be at fault, and no-one who achieved greatness to be commended. There is no potential in a preordained universe as what will be will be, regardless of your actions. A preordained universe would make all life comparable to inanimate objects, bending only to the will of the laws of physics. The illusion of freewill being nothing more than electrical impulses in the brain that were also preordained. That just seems to be the logical conclusion to a preordained universe. Having said that, i don't think the universe is preordained.

[@sativarosegold3604]

@@craigroaring by preordained I meant you agree on it before you come into this life. But you still have free will. The two aren't mutually exclusive the way people tend to look at it

[@InsanityPlusOne]

In theory if time travel existed you could change the past as the you that changed the past would come from a divergent timeline.

[@gggooding]

From a dream I had about The Time Traveler's Paradox: Point 1: 12 Monkeys notion that time is immutable fate is wrong. Bruce Willis could just kill Brad Pitt, and time would change. Point 2: we're made of matter and energy. If you time traveled and killed grandpa...you wouldn't Marty McFly fade away. You're just a bunch of atoms in physical space. Point 4: The contradiction assumes time travel. Explain time travel first and then the contradiction is probably explained. Point 4: Time travel must be a rewinding of the continuum, meaning all bets are off. Or it's traveling to a different dimension in the multiverse, meaning all bets are off. Point 5: If Jim has ever eaten anything from GreenChef or used Shopify for anything...I'm a time traveler.

[@buckbaumann773]

I will call this relative friction. Entropy increases as matter expands because friction causes randomness. The randomness of friction on particles them creates unintentional variants in vectors.

[@sativarosegold3604]

Reminds me I still have to find my boyfriend through Randonautica. Or a body in a suitcase

[@sparkywatts3072]

Two people with atomic watches get on different jets one heading East and one west. They leave at exactly the same time and travel around the earth at exactly the same speed. The two watches will show a different time. (I've heard this but don't know if it's true.)

[@buckbaumann773]

Time backwards is emit.

[@rachel_rexxx]

He seemed ill-prepared for how foolish the questions and responses are here lmao

[@andyfell8629]

we say we cant travel to the future because it hasn't happened yet but maybe we are already decades in the past just don't know it..we only understand what we think we know and in the big scheme of the universe we know nothing

[@jakeolthof]

I don't know if Sean is right about time being the most used word, I've always heard that the word I was the most used word and if you look at what I just said I said I twice as much as I said time.

[@AshkonHobooti]

Sexy Martin guitar in the background.

[@davebarrett33]

Hilario’s but I thought Jim would know more but I’m biased. Fun episode though.

[@darrylbrookes2780]

if light has no mass but infinite energy is it then braking e=mc2 because anything muliplied by 0 is 0 also if someing can travel faster then light how would we see it? and if light is the fastest thing in the universe and nothing can go faster so it is a constant then isnt it by defination not moving and everything else is moving backwards in this discription of time the past would be unchangeable but the future infinatly changable however the true future acording to e=mc2 would actually be the past as we see it meaning we are more then likely inside a singularity or the past is infinatly changable but our memorys wount be changable unless we find a way to move through space far enough to see it also if i see a glass of wine and pick it up and drink it do i say i did it because the wine wanted to be part of me no i wanted the wine it had no choice i picked it up and drank it i could just as easily not or is my fate to be an alcoholic? so if mass curves space and light is a wave em radiation and not a partical energy must become mass when it speeds up and this is the reason nothing can go faster then light so basically we are on the in side of a black hole and the cmbr is a picture of the star at or before the moment it explodes did i get into syfi there yet

[@shawnbennett8384]

It is possible you have to travel around half the solar system at full speed and then decrease the other half and you will arrive around 3000 years in the future and only 30 years human time will have passed for the people on the ship

[@buckbaumann773]

The question is then, "Does the star Methusela emit time?.

[@dosesandmimoses]

Every hour the earth rotates 15* (degrees)

[@zer0_d0wn45]

i thought shaw was lazy til i saw his dog. i wonder who taught whom.

[@DJDoena]

The reason numbers like 12 and 60 pop up so often in and outside of time is because they have so many other numbers they can be divided by. 12 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 12. 60 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 & 60. They are the opposite of prime numbers.

[@markcarey67]

They are called highly composite numbers

[@alpchen]

they asked Sean Carroll if he believes in multiverse.

[@gart9680]

*Time is the plate reality spins on.* Nothing exists without it. No gravity, no matter, no nothing without time. *Understanding time is the key to everything.*

[@kennyglidewell8594]

Dude...I'm not sure they realize the level of genius they're talking to....it is fucking hilarious to watch one of the world's greatest minds deal with the crew...."YOU KNOW WHAT MOVIE I LIKE...."🤣🤣🤣

[@drgonzo1971]

The railroads invented time zones because it was the first time people could travel fast enough for it to make a difference

[@sativarosegold3604]

Anyone wonder why the older you get the faster time seems to be going? I speculate because the soul is inching closer to crossing over to a realm where time doesn't exist

[@drmojo5439]

YES, and luckily I did a bit of research to study this phenomenon; if you're a day old, then 24 hours is a lifetime to you. I've been alive for just over 16,000 days, so that's why time seems to fly nowadays and will continue to fly by faster day by day

[@sativarosegold3604]

@@drmojo5439 absolutely. This is why children are so impatient. I remember how long an hour felt as a kid

[@I_love_music_n_cheese_n_music]

Jack please keep growing your hair out.

[@rf7012]

“You can’t go faster than the speed of light”. Who’s to say you can’t? The held thought that you can’t go faster than the speed of light is contradictory to all of these other beliefs of time, space & relevance. Any physicist worth there weight would never say you can’t go faster than the speed of light just because currently we/they don’t know any speed faster than light. For example…..Have you measured the speed of explosive or regular fusion, atomization or the gravity flow of a black hole? Can’t say nothings faster when you haven’t tested it yet.

[@christophershawley1478]

If i go faster, my time passes more slowly than yours. Is it possible to go slow enough to get the opposite effect?

[@McCarthyJohn100]

These guys need someone to explain time dilation to them.

[@limassolspearfishing7847]

I dont believe he doesnt know who Sean Carrol is :)

[@Metal_89]

sean was wrong about one thing. indiana DOES follow daylight savings (unfortunately). we used to not follow it back when i was growing up but at some point the politicians decided to make us do that.

[@GLENC0C0]

What flies but has no wings? My dumbass thinking "hOtAiRbAlLoOn"

[@garethbeaton8414]

Fist like love you bro

[@hrishikeshh9637]

📈📈

[@paulclissold1525]

Wasnt the greeks it was mesopotamia the sumers same mob who gave us the alphabet.

[@6egotronix]

16:37 where im at, we get 14 days free trial with out your promo code.

[@drmojo5439]

Man, you guys get the best guests. So do people like Sean Carroll and Richard Dawkins know what they're getting themselves into when they sign up for a show like this? For comedy's sake, I hope not

[@whackbag3606]

What happened...happened.

[@jakeolthof]

I just googled the most used word in English and it's not I it's the.

[@micahlamothe8141]

54 minute in, the “expert” tried to say that time is constant, wrong! It has been proven it is affected by gravity. Huge studies have been done and they are not hard to find. I was looking forward to this one. Love the podcast, didn’t like the guest.

[@Curran161]

Too bad international shipping is a fuckin doooozy even just to Caneedoo

[@mikemhoon]

Is that dog alive?

[@danielthompson803]

8 lol 3 at best.

[@eliashood9468]

Bruh. That wasn’t even a funny kind of “meh im not trying”. That was just sort of sad 🤣🤣🤣

[@samuel97ful]

I wonder why he don't talk about gun control anymore 😬 , maybe the last 2 years a half has change some shit

[@sonicalstudios]

Glad you're doing stuff Jym but I would rather you do your own stuff. I want to see you not these other people I don't know anything about them and I have nothing in common. I want to see you not talk about random shit they provide. It should be about you Jim

[@rf7012]

“Time travel can’t exist!" “Time travel can’t exist!” “Time travel can’t exist!” “We’ll we can’t say time travel doesn’t exist”