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The Flash empIoys several different kinds of time travel in its story, drawing from movies like back to the Future, X-Men: days of the Future Past, Groundhog Day, Interstellar, and Avengers: Endgame. IN this video we break down exactly how it works, and what this means for the new DCU.
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We have been getting a lot of questions about time travel in the flash movie, because-well-it’s really confusing. The movie employs several different kinds of time travel to tell its story, and I’m here to explain all of them to you. [what the hell is going on?]
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So, let’s talk about time travel. We fielded a lot of questions about time travel after avengers endgame, explaining branching timelines. And now this movie completely upends all of tht, with a scene where Michael keaton actually says, “you probably saw a movie that explained time travel as branching timeline., but that’s not right.”
So the Flash actually does emply this kind of time travel-but it also combines different types of time travel from other movies. So we are going to explain each type of time travel that is sue din the movie, until it all makes sense.
I want to quickly shout out the channel Minute Physics for their grat breakdown of different kinds of time travel, and new rockstars also has a gerat video breaking down different types of time travel in movies.
Let’s start with the one we’re all most familiar with-causality theory. This is like in Back to the Fuure. If you travel back in time to your past, then you can actually change your past. and -like Marty mcFlay-erase yourself from existence. This kind of time travel is the easiest for most people to understand, because we are linear beings who perceive time as a fixed, one way motion. So if this thread represents my timeline, and someone goes back in time to kill me, then that thread is severed and I cease ot exist.
In the Flash, we see this casualty with Other Barry. He gets a scar in the past, so a scar appears on his future self.
Doug: Yeah, why did that happen to him, but not to the rest of the universe.
Because-like Marty McFly-both Barrys are fulcrums in time-which I will explain in a bit.
The next type of time travel is the branching reality, and this ois what we saw in endgame. Bruce explained it like this [changing past doens;t change your future, doens;t become new past].
So this one still confuses people. Basically, Bruce iis saying that it is impossible for you to ever change your own timeline, because this creates a paradox. Liek, if you were to invent a time machine, and then you traveled bak in time to prevent yourself from building a time machine-you’re not actually undoing your past. You’re creating an alternate timeline where you don;t ever get to time travel.
In the MCU, each of these branching timelines is a new universe. That also happens in the flash, but more on that in a bit.
Doug: I still don;t get it.
Okay, let’s say that this paper towel roll represents the flow of time. Your broth, your death, Julius caesar, megan thee stallion, all in here. And this thread represents your life. So when you travel back in time, it’s like puncuring a hole in the tube, and you’re running through that hole. You’re always still going to be you, but now that hole i time is going to branch out.
Doug: Oh I get it. Cardboard is a very helpful tool.
Thank you. So the next tye of time travel is when something had always happened. This is like in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry, hermione and ron travel back in time to save their past selves lives-wich allows them to later go back in time and save their own lives. IN a way, this is like in Bill and ted’s excellent adventure, when they remind themselves to go back later and after the win, to plant the keys [clip]. Or, like how Rufus never intridcused himself-but bill and ted tell their past selves rufus’s name [clip].

[@ScreenCrush]

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[@Madmaxxxx1984]

So basically when he pulled back out of that timeline and let her moms death happen as it was supposed to happen it never disturbeds the other unfortunate order of events example Batman/ Bruce's hippy stays in retirement , supergirl remains in the Soviet prison captive and ultimately Zods invasion never happens on this Earth ?? Bravo clap 👏🏼 interesting

[@fumikato]

Bruce Hulk is saying that, no matter which direction you're time traveling, you will always be traveling to your future. so you cannot change what's already behind of you, only what's ahead of you.

[@user-gh5sd2nm5y]

I don’t think so, that’s literally Banner’s explanation in endgame

[@calltyshon]

Barry changed the main stars in back to the future. Barry wasn't even born back then.

[@fumikato]

@@user-gh5sd2nm5y yeah, bruce banner

[@p0pimp2004]

​@@calltyshonhe created a new timeline with a different past. He didn't change his own past

[@siphomzunga4653]

Avengers endgame shows that they fool us..bringing back dead people from the past to the future and nothing get mess up

[@BansheeBunny]

I love it, a media KZbinr explains time travel with surface tension, perfectly.

[@KevKrieger32]

That‘s why I love time travel. There are so many concept and variation on how time travel can work. This video shows it very well. It reminds me of Steins;Gate, an anime which revolves about time travel.

[@Living_Soul54]

Same bro, Different interations of how the multiuverse and time travel intersect with each other as no in real life has ever done it so everything we see on these movies/tv shows all are speculation and i gotta say, it's very fun watching and learning about.

[@Keshin4539]

I love the way y'all explain these different Time Travel methods. Made my scientific side chuckle quite a bit

[@Byronic19134]

You know I'm somewhat of a scientist myself and just want to know who killed Barry's mom.

[@tython055]

One method of time travel revolves around each universe in a multiverse with its own set of infinite timelines. Changing the past creates an alternate timeline that branches off from your own personal timeline. Meaning, changing things in the past doesn't affect your future and vice versa as you and the timeline you're originally from would still exist. Marvel and other franchises that follows this method are prime examples. Another method is similar to the first one above, except that the multiverse is one entire timeline that can have alternate timelines with one multiverse each. The Dragon Ball multiverse is a prime example of this, and this concept is very rare. The third method is when you change the past of your personal timeline, you change your future that can literally alter your memories or have yourself erased from existence. The DC multiverse and its Dark counterpart are primarily known for this method due to Flashpoint, Reverse Flashpoint, etc.

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

@@Byronic19134 its Reverse flash every one knows it and Director confirmed it ( if there is a story for second flash movie they will look into it ) however its still a mystery in DCEU

[@sayathedog8171]

I saw this movie last night with my dad and I thought "2023 is like the year of Multiverse movies"

[@thetruebatman4632]

It does suck because DC and the Flash were the first to do it on publication, but they’re the last to do it cinematically so casual viewers will assume they’re just copying Marvel.

[@kylecarter1599]

You and everybody else

[@juniorjr9011]

@@thetruebatman4632 and marvel copied and stole so much from DC since the dawn of time

[@atwunz]

​@@juniorjr9011 but not spiderman and namor.

[@Byronic19134]

@@thetruebatman4632 Worse is DC actually was the first to start their multiverse movie as this been in production since like 2014. What a shxt show Warner Bros is.

[@matthewwood1729]

If dark flash is created by Barry getting knocked into an earlier age and helping his younger self get his powers.. how did Barry get pushed into that timeline in the first place?

[@matthewwood1729]

Because wouldn’t dark flash not exist yet

[@afiqazman6615]

@@matthewwood1729 and also if Dark Flash was created because of causality time travel, he wouldn't get old since Barry 2 died early in the chronobowl.

[@sixfeetunder0105]

I LOVED how all the other movies try the scientific serious approach, and this subvert expectations with noodles haha and made sense. Brilliant !

[@LonewolfOfSD]

I am not sure the Barry's fulcruming created the vastly different universes we saw, I think their actions were somehow causing the potential destruction of all universes everywhere... all at once. It wasn't until the death of Dark Flash that caused those other singular universes to spin back into their separate corners of the cosmic speed force pane (I am not sure what to call it).

[@XGlite015]

Great explanation. It's easy to understand and the references to different time travel movies are awesome. This turned me into a subscriber.

[@josuafraser4865]

Shoulda been subscribed to screecrush🙃his vids are always good and neatly explained. New Rockstars As Well

[@1neOfN0ne]

Whether you liked the flash or not, one thing i think we can all agree on is Supergirl is FINE AS HELL. My god she looked good in that suit

[@ciro9951]

She’s tight

[@edrrrk]

I kind of like how dc and marvel's multiverse and time travels work differently

[@siphomzunga4653]

I'm asking the same question coz in marvel endgame is wase..that berry the flash

[@blue_lancer_es]

9:52 well ripple effect did happen. Clooney.

[@ScreenCrush]

Any questions?

[@lutfirahman63]

not yet. still watching right now sir

[@assassingaming5243]

Why was the main earth bruce old?

[@zelwojtek]

Are there DVDs in those cases Or are they behind the counter?

[@DTHMusic45]

​@@assassingaming5243 good question. Like how when he changes the timeline in 2002 or whatever this before Change?

[@ericjome7284]

It is implied the Dark Flash spent years continually returning to the fight against Zod. If this were the case, why doesn't the battle there show thousands or millions of Barrys all at the same moment? Indeed, the first time they get there, it should already have millions of Dark Flash trying things to try to win.

[@GothamGargoyle]

i got mad at the long cologne plug and gave a thumbs down then got so grateful for the explanation that I switched to a thumbs up. you got me.

[@davidchism6081]

Doctor Who: time is a big ball of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey...stuff.

[@serwinzzalot9989]

Wow! This is episode belongs on a DC bluray as an extra. Bravo

[@CyGea]

Moving the tomatoes to the top shelf DID break the universe. Just not as badly as saving his mom. Batman was not the same person, this is because Barry moved the tomatoes. The changes aren’t as great, because the affect, happens in Barry’s present.

[@OXXWIZZ]

WELL THE MAIN BARRY IS STUCK FOREVER BETWEEN VERSES HE CANNOT GO BACK TO A STRAND OF SPAGHETTI WITHOUT CAUSING ANYTHING NOW

[@KyoMobius]

Effects*

[@CyGea]

@@KyoMobius It’s an affect, not effects.

[@tdtellem]

Exactly. If the tomatoes were put back and all the past events played out as they originally did, Barry would be in the universe with Ben's Batman. Since he did make a change, it created the changes that went back AND forward through time. Which is why we get the George Clooney Bruce Wayne and not the Ben Affleck version.

[@joey2894]

Yep, I interpreted it as Keaton, Affleck, and Clooney were all literally the exact same person. The intersecting point on the 2 strands of spaghetti. It helped me swallow the ending a little better knowing Keaton's Batman became the Clooney character

[@IsiahBradley]

THANKS for this!!!! Really appreciate the extra work!!!!

[@TheBrownKnight35]

"Meg The Stallion" 😂 that got me

[@jacobholly2096]

In truth when I saw dark flash and when he punched Barry out of the speed force in my mind I said is that There version of Savitar mixed with black flash .

[@hh3llifino]

Ahh yes spaghetti MULTIVERSE…loved the writing in this movie

[@Cwn41]

Thank god for these channels. No chance I’d spend money on this. Nice to see a at happens

[@ericjome7284]

A possible solution is that no one ever really travels through time, but instead travels to alternate universes where things are just a little (or a lot) different. You might think this looks like your universe in your past, but it is just another universe that looks like your past. All universes are moving at the same speed of time, but some exist as if they were the "past" of another universe. This solves all sorts of problems. You can even "change" your "past" by moving to a universe that seems like your past, "changing" something, then moving to a third universe that is like your original if the thing had been "changed".

[@ericjome7284]

So called absolute moments or fulcrum points are just events where it is difficult to find a universe with that detail being different.

[@FinalStigma]

Buddy, that explanation of yours is no different from the Many-Worlds Interpretation, don't you agree? It literally doesn't matter if you call it time-travel or inter-universal travel. The important thing is both your explanation and the Many-Worlds Interpretation helps to prevent paradoxes that results from actions taken in the past. That's all these possible solutions are worth. And since they cannot be proven, of course no one can argue that they aren't possible solutions.

[@davesummers1369]

Yea this is basically what Endgame did. And that movie name drops David Deutsch, and this is exactly how he explains it in Fabric of Reality. It’s why Hulk says you can’t change your past, because you aren’t really in your past. You’re just screwing other universes and returning to yours.

[@FinalStigma]

​@@davesummers1369 Well, originally, the Many-Worlds Interpretation was never supposed to be used in fiction. It really was just a theory to solve the Grandfather's Paradox. As long as we can't observe any of those other-worlds, there's no way it can be proven anyway. Also, I really don't think it's a good idea to apply the rules from one story to a different story, like trying to make one single time-travel theory to explain how the multiverse in both Marvel and DC's universes work. Focusing on just Marvel and DC's stories for now, the biggest difference between Marvel's version of multiverse and DC's version is really simple. Originally, DC dabbled in this kind of stories because they encountered an issue where their writers were continuously ignoring story continuity, so the editors came up with a way to reboot the entire universe instead. In other words, the characters' actions wipe out and rewrote the entire continuity. This eventually became a method for them to "refresh" their characters every so often. Flashpoint, which is what this movie was based on, was just one of those universe-rebooting events. Marvel's version is just a simple story-telling technique that seeks to tell stories of their existing characters using alternate settings while still preserving their main continuity. For example, even when Professor X's son went back in time and accidentally killed him, which changed the entire timeline, in the Age of Apocalypse event, it was explained that what readers were reading was an alternate reality. The original 616 universe still remained the same, but because of the disturbance in time and space, the M'kraan Crystal was threatening to destroy the entire universe unless the characters can stop Professor X's son from killing him and change the timeline back to what it used to be. So, even when Marvel was telling time-travel stories that used cause and effect as a plot point and raised the stakes proportionally, it still obeyed the rules and continuity that the past writers have set for themselves. What I'm trying to say is each company plays by their own rules. I can see that you're trying to make a one-size-fits-all multiverse/time travel story theory that seeks to make all of these stories makes sense, but I think you're going to find yourself dealing with tons of contradictions. For example, can your solution explain why Future Barry 2 was erased from the timeline when Barry 2 substained a fatal injury if Future Barry 2 is supposed to be an alternate Barry 2? I mean, according to your solution, Future Barry 2 should have been meeting Barry 1-A and Barry 2-A instead when he traveled back in time. Or are you going to say that there's only 1 Chornobowl in the multiverse? Because if that's the case, we should be seeing multiple versions of Future Barry 2 in there since there were so many worlds where Supergirl died, with their own respective Barry 2 trying to save her. Edit: Sorry, thought you were the other guy replying to me.

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

@@FinalStigma for us fans of CW flash the Chornobowl is Speedforce and its one future Barry 2 is not from the future his just spent his all life in the Chornobowl trying to save supergirl and Batman

[@TheRealReVeLaTioN]

At 2:08 I see what you did there! 😆 (you thought he was gone forever like dogs think when we leave) 👊🏾🍻

[@ragnong9680]

What I don't understand is when Barry creates a new universe by messing with time, shouldn't there already be a Flash in the new universe he created? The universe Barry started the movie in is not the same universe Barry ended the movie in (Affleck-verse and the Clooney-verse). So shouldn't the Clooney universe already have a Flash of its own? And if Barry finished the movie in the Clooney universe, what happened to the Affleck universe's Barry? Is there a missing Barry Allen in the Affleck universe??

[@akl8784]

Yeah, scratching my head there haha

[@DildaNick]

I hope someone will explain also this...

[@afiqazman6615]

Yes, if you imagine Batfleck universe still exist, they would be missing their speedster.

[@rayniercastillo6385]

I agree. There are so many plot holes in this movie.

[@SuperUSAgent]

I think we needed about 5 more minutes of movie . Did Alfred become Sir Michael Caine ? Did Wonder Woman become Lynda Carter ?

[@rocketwagon1000]

No movie has time travel right, though. Because we're moving so fast through space, if you skip back or forward in time even a minute, you would just be in space. It's all in a book called "We Are Alone: A Novel".

[@MichaelWyattMDW]

That's why the Doctor has a TARDIS.... Time AND Relative Dimensions.... IN SPACE!!!!

[@rocketwagon1000]

@@MichaelWyattMDW OOOH I didn't know that. Ha my sister's always trying to get me to watch that show. Now I think I'll have to check it out.

[@Byronic19134]

Actually, although it's not explained, the Avengers method theoretically accounts for that by using the Quantum realm because of Quantum Entanglement.

[@drunkGfunk]

I am a time traveler. But I can only time travel into the future, and only one second at a time

[@cedricboykins9328]

This was a great science project A+

[@KevinFlores-vq7zp]

Didn’t Barry call his dad in prison telling him that the new software that improves the CCTV recordings doesn’t prove his innocence since he didn’t look up, hence the Flash at the in the market switching up the rows of tomato 🍅 cans to the, making sure his actually looks up facing the camera and finally dismissing the modern charges of his wife? I’m just saying that he did indeed change part of the future after it was written, the first viewing of the recordings. Btw, I thought it was great how seamlessly the switch the actors of Barry’s father from the Justice League lol

[@Mr.yeast2022]

acording to the science of time travel, in back to the future part 1, when marty convinved his dad to be better, it did not just effect his parents life, but also marty's life making them better and when marty returned back to 1985, he was in an alturnative future that never really happened before. so that can explain that time travel is really just the multiverse all along.

[@Jeeshansameer2165]

Great Explanation Screen Crush

[@CesarRamirez]

Appreciate the homemade illustration! 😊

[@robpouria]

“This is you… This is me… This is Bruce Springsteen…” Gold!!

[@cameronschmit6472]

I think if time travel is even possible, there would be time police like the TVA. There would have to be because someone somewhere invented time travel. I’m waiting for a scene that shows someone showing up to Tony’s house almost immediately after discovering time travel. Kang perhaps because that was part of his sacred timeline

[@justingatcomb8966]

Phenomenal explanation. This will be my reference for everyone after they see the movie from now on

[@jackmarshall3255]

I’m wondering will the DCEU still carry on even if we don’t see it anymore and would the DCEU not have the flash anymore since he traveled to a different universe.

[@afiqazman6615]

good point! DCU will get new Flash not played by Ezra Miller! Miller will be on his own universe!

[@David.Andrew]

Great video

[@Sparkle0501]

Great that you mentioned Agents of Shield that show was peak

[@jaredbezes7806]

You missed one very very important Easter egg. Kind of gives the movie away tbh. When Barry goes back in time and grabs the green can tomatoes, the price tag is $1.37 which is in reference to the flash issue 137 in which the movie is almost 1-1 the same.

[@music4thesoul80]

Excellent video Ryan! 👍

[@eddieg.9568]

Great time travel explanation!

[@izzyxblades]

It makes me happy to see that Ryan uses the same Mrs Meyer's dish soap as me

[@robabram6874]

Nice run down of time travel. there is another cool version of time travel used in the sci-fi show "Farscape"

[@YungShep1]

Megan the Stallion 😄😄😄😄 just like the RKO, outta nowhere 😄

[@ragnong9680]

@9:45 INCORRECT MY GOOD SIR!!!!! Barry Allen replacing the Tomato can would have created a MASSIVE PARADOX. Let me explain Remember the sticky note that Bruce left him was different. Instead of an apology, the note informed him to be in court because the CCTV footage Bruce saw was different. Also the phone conversation that he had with his dad the night before he time travelled would never have happened. Both the note Bruce left him and the phone call he had with his dad, both happened before Barry time travelled and both incidents would not have happened if the tomato can was on the top shelf. Hell Barry might not have been as depressed enough to go back in time to change events with such good news from Bruce. I mean Barry would've just achieved his dream. His only reason for going into forensics was exonerating his dad. And now his dream came true.

[@afiqazman6615]

You forgot that the constant event is that the CCTV recording was messed up. It need to be cleaned first before everyone can see whether Barry's dad looked up or not. So no massive paradox occurs.

[@ragnong9680]

@@afiqazman6615 right but the footage was cleaned before he went back in time. Bruce was not able to see Barry's dad in the video, which led to Barry calling his dad and apologizing to him, which led to Barry's dad telling him to move on with his life, which led Barry to feel like a failure and want to go back in time and fix things. None of these events would've happened if on cleaning the footage, Bruce saw Barry's dad's face. And the key point is the footage was cleaned before Barry time travelled.

[@bigge242]

Ryan you killed this episode! Great job of explaining time travel

[@SweetJimmyNetwork]

X-files had a good time loops episode

[@Discordia_19_]

I just loved the Marty McFly BTTF explanation of the timeline change in the dorm room with Barry, Barry and Gary 😂

[@franciscometz560]

Haven't seen the movie yet but thanks for explaining another way the time travel works in sci-fi

[@Gzilla313]

The props alone are worth a like

[@TheThunderSound]

@ScreenCrush I think when Barry placed the can higher, he created another timeline. That's why George Clooney Brice Wayne showed up instead of Ben Affleck Bruce.

[@pacman_17]

Kang will erase Flash and all his variants from the multiverse for messing with the sacred timeline

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

Kang is from MCU cannot erase Flash ( Flash is from DC )

[@Byronic19134]

You're missing an entire plane of existence, Ryan. Simply put a color gradient below the pasta strands and show how when moving the pendulum the underneath color gradients change which would be the details of that Universe while the pasta strand is the timeline of it.

[@afiqazman6615]

hmm... if Barry 2 is also a fulcrum, then his death would not make Dark Flash disappear, because Dark Flash is Barry 2 canon event; Dark Flash is fulcrum too.

[@michaelr.dickerson6224]

So . . . when we get to see the prior actors who played Superman and Batman and get fan service . . . are these technically MemberBARRYs?

[@lesterjohnson2691]

Damn that was a good video. How long did it take for you to come up with all these explanations?

[@kuya_timmy]

I like the use of the bowl and the dry spaghetti noodles it was a big help

[@haohanwang2476]

Not related to flash the movie but people ought to watch Dark to understand the consequences of time travel. That show changed my idea on time entirely.

[@livesbeneaththebayproducti3909]

I want to know if their keeping Ezra, or their leaving him in a alternate universe?

[@chaberio1335]

Did anyone else have to rewind...I know I did ;) Thanks A Ryan

[@1neOfN0ne]

I mean Michael Keaton already explained this pretty well by way of spaghetti

[@tfoxx17]

Great explanation!

[@brandadse.1741]

Reminded me of the Time Machine too when he kept trying to save his wife / can’t change fate..

[@alexanderdumas-]

It fucked up its own time paws because there should have been another Barry at the end in the Clooneyverse

[@DecarloSTwiggs]

I believe someday DC will setup a Crisis On Infinite Earth storyline.

[@geenhaaien]

i get what the movie and you’re trying to say, but ezra’s barry met grant’s in crisis on infinite earths, and the arrowverse explained time travel as the usual way

[@3riclol]

Ryan’s props he used to explain time travel reminds me a lot of Loki ruining Mobius’ salad from Loki lol

[@ericjome7284]

Time travel is functionally impossible. In order for you to even know that something in the past existed for you to want to change it, it has to have been that way. If it wasn't that way then, you wouldn't even think it was something you wanted to change. Determinism wins, even if we are blessed with the illusion of free will because the universe is so vast and complicated we cannot know enough to understand the inevitability.

[@ked49]

If I travel to the past and intentionally kill a random person. i can still travel to the past because my intention is to kill someone who I don’t know. You theory works if I go back with the intention to kill hitler.

[@Byronic19134]

Good thing for us that in the real world, science has already irrefutably proved determinism to be nothing more than a meta-mental masturbation exercise because, under determinism's own rules, you could never even convince somebody of it because determinism prohibits the chance of logic actually persuading anybody. So since determinism has already been defeated by quantum physics it is time to note that quantum entanglement has already proven time travel real as well. Although like when humans first harnessed the energy of fire to keep warm, we are a longs ways from turning that fire into lasers and spaceships and can't quite imagine what it will look like.

[@ogbreeze1081]

I watched this whole video and the moment the dog understands something I understand it as well. But then I don’t really understand it and now I’m more confused than when I got here.

[@BthIX]

Fulcrum theory makes perfect sense, idk why this confused so many people.

[@jeffycease9099]

I think Spaceballs explained time travel the best…hahah

[@scottthompsen845]

Absolutely love the shirt! “ want to play fetch let’s play fetch” lol

[@fnievez]

Assuming Supergirl's Ship landed on and destroyed Metropolis, hence why she's in that underground prison, same as Superman from Flashpoint Paradox.

[@MultiRider7]

You think Reverse Flash killed Barrys mom? 🤔 Hope we see Reverse Flash on the big screen one day!

[@BKzChief]

Yup, they just didn't want to add that element to this movie. Will most likely be explored in the james gunn dcu reboot.

[@Noon_00Nz]

Yes, they still leave that scene where we don’t see the killer, but the writer needs to really explain from Reverse Flash why he lets Barry’s mom lives for this movie.

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

Director confirmed that he did but still a mystery in DCEU they will show it in more movies to come

[@BullyHemsworth]

@@Noon_00Nz yeah its confusing why he didnt kill barrys mom when his dad was there.

[@patrickconner6384]

No. Thawne wouldn't be deterred by Henry being home. Plus, he would have gone after Barry, too

[@robertguarino355]

🤯😵😵‍💫🤯 omfg this is a amazing video

[@Injectedracing]

Very good. Now explain DCEU Barry’s appearance in crisis on infinite earths

[@wiljanmotion5361]

Its a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuf. Like how Michael keaton kinda explained in the movie

[@luisyugiohseller]

Your explanation was pretty amazing!

[@serenityhope9114]

@ScreenCrush The only thing I'm confused about is that when Barry moved the tomatoe can, he created another multiverse where his dad is innocent and there is a new Batman, however, where is the new Barry in this new multiverse?

[@thegamergod1773]

It not mathsing

[@SimonSaysCanada]

20 points foer effort!

[@JebbAntMatt]

I can’t wait to send this video to everyone who wanna debate this theory with me 🤣

[@Santigolder]

Phenomenal video!!

[@theodore9668]

I think I have to watch the video a couple of times to understand this

[@trevorberridge6079]

Great explaination of time travel theories. If you take a close look at your real lives you will see that there are crossroad moments that affect your entire future. That's why you should never have regrets if there is any one thing in your life you wouldn't change. Barry tried to change the one thing he regretted most but forgot all the things he would put in jeopardy. As Doctor Who would say, it's all just a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

[@BibekGhosh88]

My mind almost got blown

[@mikejackson2228]

The best way to think about time is that it's a piece of ballistics jelly and you're the bullet. You move through it, but it never actually changes.

[@StuffedGamer]

watching this explanation makes me sad time travel doesn''t exist, I now wanna know what messed up moments in my life are supposed to be fixed :D :(

[@Preludedraw]

Isn't it more than just time travel? That he just ended up in the wrong universe by the end?

[@sarahclapp505]

You took on time travel good luck

[@Hdub2121]

I just don’t understand. Did he go back in time or did he go to a different universe because how is he going back to his own timeline and it being changed so much?

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

@Hdub2121 He went back in time and changed some thing ( by changing some thing he created a alternate timeline ) while coming back he was pushed out of the speed force to the alternate timeline he created

[@Big_Boss4269]

I would’ve loved it if it was Grant Gustin Flash who convinced Ezra Miller Flash to stop trying to fish everything.

[@FrostDJakki3529]

There's no such thing as time travel. But it is possible to Dimension hop to another dimension that happens to be in that time period That you're trying to go to. But in a way, going through space and time to another dimension could be a type of time travel. And that's basically what they did in Avengers' endgame

[@Byronic19134]

Wrong because time is simply another dimension. That is why all these multiverse stories happen to include time travel because they are intrinsically linked and at the quantum level time travel has been proven to happen in photons we just need to upscale it.

[@CaptChrispy]

Flash would have had to move ALL the cans to that shelf or else his dad might have found the others on the lower shelf.

[@TrAkhilAjith]

I have to watch it again. 😄

[@dedsec6895]

Basically they're fixed points to where you can change them but you shouldn't change them

[@brianlara6451]

Time dilation posits that time travel is possible. A new term I saw 'super-luminous' used to explain why we can't see the matter escaping black holes. It's matter moving faster than the speed of light, which according to relativity means it's moving backwards in time.

[@PaulBlanks-Bonaney]

I would have felt better if you did all of that on paper. Other than the bowl with the pepper & soap that one makes that one explanation understandable.

[@LostStories47]

Why didn't he just take the can to his house himself or wait for the killer to appear?? 🤔

[@michaelkaggwa4915]

@LostStories47 Bruce warned Barry about going back in time so barry wanted to prevent not to catch a killer cuz catching a killer would change things drastically however he found him self changing things

[@LostStories47]

@@michaelkaggwa4915 Thanks for the answer! ☺

[@marianagrande421]

L O V E the explanation!! I knew it was somehow connected to Dr. Manhattan's Omniscience but I just couldn't comprehend it.