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What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?

2023-03-15 Education
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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. But sometimes physics comes to conclusions that are in direct conflict with concepts fundamental to our minds, such as the realness of space and time. How do we tell who’s correct? Are time and space objective realities or human-invented concepts? Episode Companion Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCcB-P2_ExFNiVeDmnbnsPJ Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: https://search.pbsspacetime.com/ Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Bahar Gholipour & Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini, Pedro Osinski, Caique Oliveira, Adriano Leal & Stephanie Faria Directed by Andrew Kornhaber Associate Producer: Bahar Gholipour Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Spacetime is produced by Kornhaber Brown for PBS Digital Studios. This program is produced by Kornhaber Brown, which is solely responsible for its content. © 2023 PBS. All rights reserved. End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiDroideka Space Time Was Made Possible In Part By: Big Bang Sponsors: Ian Jones Bryce Fort Peter Barrett David Neumann Leo Koguan Sean Maddox Alexander Tamas Morgan Hough Juan Benet Vinnie Falco Fabrice Eap Mark Rosenthal Daniel Muzquiz Quasar Sponsors: Glenn Sugden Alex Kern Ethan Cohen Stephen Wilcox Christina Oegren Mark Heising Hypernova Sponsors: Ivari Tölp Vyce Ailour Kenneth See Gregory Forfa Kirk Honour Joe Moreira Bradley Voorhees Marc Armstrong Scott Gorlick Paul Stehr-Green Ben Delo Scott Gray Антон Кочков John R. Slavik David S. Cerutti Donal Botkin John Pollock Edmund Fokschaner Chuck Zegar Jordan Young Gamma Ray Burst Supporters Massimiliano Pala Aaron Molina Thomas Nielson Joe Pavlovic Ryan McGaughy Mark West Chuck Lukaszewski Edward Hodapp Cole Combs Marc Forand Andrea Galvagni Jerry Thomas Nikhil Sharma Ryan Moser Jonathan Cordovano John Anderson David Giltinan Scott Hannum Paul Widden Bradley Ulis Craig Falls Kane Holbrook John Yaraee Ross Story teng guo Mason Dillon Matt Langford Harsh Khandhadia Thomas Tarler Susan Albee Frank Walker Matt Quinn Michael Lev Terje Vold James Trimmier Anatoliy Nagornyy Andre Stechert Paul Wood Kent Durham Jim Bartosh Ramon Nogueira Ellis Hall John H. Austin, Jr. Faraz Khan Almog Cohen Alex Edwards Ádám Kettinger Endre Pech Daniel Jennings Cameron Sampson Geoffrey Clarion Russ Creech Jeremy Reed David Johnston Michael Barton Andrew Mann Isaac Suttell Oliver Flanagan Bleys Goodson Robert Walter Mirik Gogri Mark Delagasse Mark Daniel Cohen Nickolas Andrew Freeman Shane Calimlim Tybie Fitzhugh Robert Ilardi Eric Kiebler Craig Stonaha Graydon Goss Frederic Simon Dmitri McGuiness John Robinson Jim Hudson Alex Gan David Barnholdt David Neal John Funai Bradley Jenkins Daniel Stříbrný Cody Brumfield Thomas Dougherty Dan Warren Patrick Sutton John Griffith Dean Faulk

Top Comments (10)

@GraveUypo 2023-03-15

it fascinates me how us, the result of these processes, are here trying to figure out the processes, through the processes themselves. it's like an AI looking at its own code while it executes

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@smartyy86 2023-03-15

and deeper into the rabbit hole we go! thank you PBS and Matt for this awesome journey over the last years

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@vvdv99 2023-03-19

As a neuroscientist interested in physics, this episode was a marvelous meeting of worlds. The finding that hippocampal space/time navigation resides in the same area that governs episodic memory may be especially revealing about how humans think and experience the world/universe.Great explanation and graphics, as usual, but now closer to “home”. Many thanks, Matt and Spacetime.

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@psychoedge 2023-03-16

I love these episodes that cross into other fields of science and prepare us for even weirder fundamental information

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@unvergebeneid 2023-03-15

While playing Hyperbolica, a game set in non-Euclidean spaces that will absolutely break your brain, I looked some of this stuff up to see if the grid cells were hard-wired from birth to a Euclidean plane or if they just formed this way during brain development because that maps to our experience. What I found seems to indicate that it is the former. Much to my dismay, however, nobody ever did an experiment on mice where they would wear tiny VR goggles from birth that simulate hyperbolic space. Until someone does, we don't seem to know for certain.

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@Jm-wt1fs 2023-03-16

I love the direction this channel has taken and how Matt has grown into one of the best science communicators of our time

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@jakeireland6810 2023-03-27

This episode is picking apart the fabric of reality at the most profound and mind-expanding level.

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@sy20000 2023-03-30

These videos are lullaby to me. I play it in background and this is the fastest way for me to sleep

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@MrThrashMan98 2024-03-23

Isn't there a continuation video to this one yet?

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@AmineSaouli-b7l 2025-12-26

it is fascinating to me how us, the result of these processes, are here trying to figure out the processes

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