it amazes me how some great ted talks don't go viral. This is one of them. This was brilliant. Great ending too!

This is the FIRST time that I actually understood, truly understood a talk on time and space and relatively. Thank you!

Listening to him *can make people to feel smart.* I think people like him can push humanity forward to a better future !

What is great is not the technical level, but his deep realisations that he can share in a very effective way

I almost didn't watch this because I was sure I wouldn't understand it. He explained it so wonderfully and brilliantly that it all made sense! Thank you for this talk!

Finally, an actual answer that makes sense about the falling tree in the forest. This a great lecture. Thanks to the muggers back in 2002?

I read his book. Fascinating story. As interesting as his work in mathematics has been, which is important and amazing, the implications as to what the brain is, and what awareness is, are equally important. The types of revelations brought forth by his (and other savant studies) are humbling, and should caution science never to be too sure of itself.

as a physicist, this is well-known . He describes it in beautiful language. I would like to talk to him about some things physicists cannot explain such as the double slit experiment demonstrating the dual nature of light . and action at a distance. God I have so many things I want to ask him...

Who's here after watching that brain rewired vid

Besides his gift, he is an exceptionally likable person. You kind of know that he is a 'good person, in other words. I would bet that you'd be likely to find it so if you spent time with him in real life. Very positive and also inspirational.

Glad I am traveling this wave with you all!

12 years ago a professor told me “if you think you understand the theory of relativity you’re wrong” and this dude just got me closer than I have ever been.

This Ted talk is underestimated. Should have so many more views. Amazing !

To say that what he sees is not new misses the point. He has a intuitive perspective of a reality that is traditionally only achieved by training and mathematics. And, his intuition can be supplemented by formula, providing a more complete understanding. His condition uncovers possibilities to perceive, make models, that supplement, or could even supplant, how we train the brain (education, repetition) . We just have to find a gentler method. This could be the next step to train the hardware and software that sits in our skull. That's crazy amazing. I'm sorry he had to suffer a blow to achieve his insights, but am heartened that his insights seem to have given his life greater meaning.

He is explaining to himself back when he was 32, the way he would have undestood, thank you Jason, you did awesome!!

This guys an amazing teacher

This literally changed my life explaining things I used to feel without knowing how to describe .

This is amazing, I feel lucky to have come across this. More people need to see it!

This is relatively the best Ted talk ever realized.

this was one of the best ted talks ever, and it was only 10 minutes - shows quality>quantity

I love it! Each person has their own viewpoint of the universe. I saw a cool drawing he did of the Double Slit experiment that applies to the Many Worlds theory.

Fantastic lecture more people should watch. Answers some questions I’ve had for a while but also poses a lot of other questions and thought topics I’ll be thinking about for years to come. People dismiss you if you take the “if a tree falls in a forest” question with this much seriousness but it’s the simple questions like that, questions you’d hear from a first grader in their first science class asking. You’re labeled as annoying if you’re the type of person to ask why to everything but I think we should be encouraged to ask why and how!! We need the mystery and intrigue if science back and this man definitely brought his A game.

I was cruising around this site and I stumbled onto a 10 year boy who is in college because he has some kind of special gift. That lead me to another brainiac kid...then I saw Jason on an older video on a talk show. That lead me to this video... He's amazing..and how he got that way is even more amazing.

One of the best talks I have ever seen. Excellent !!!!

Mind officially blown. I really like this guy.

It is indeed amazing lecture Sir. Out of owe you see in the nature you are so humble. Sharing your perspective enlightens us!

Great down to earth explanation of relativity. This talk could go on for an hour and I wouldn't be bored.

Try waving your hand once or twice in front of you. You can slightly see the picture frames he was talking about

This is very enjoyable. It's making me think that I can understand stuff that I never thought I would be able to understand.

I think this video is the best video that explains everything is relative and can be changed by someone's movement or something.

This is one of the most amazing Ted Talks that I have ever heard. Very short but sweet.

One of the best talks i have ever watched on internet...

Nice presentation. You did well and thanks BE.

That was well said. Well done, Sir! Keep this up. You are making a difference!

This was so well explained it blew my mind

Wow omg. I just love ur talk and understand every point of it. I remember how i thought something similar when i was little.

Wow what a positive, clearly speaking man!

This is my all-time favorite Ted Talk, so I did a better Spanish translation with time stamps. How do I send to you?

Very inspiring, brillant !

This is just what I needed to hear! Thank you!

This is one of the best TED talks ive seem

Human beings do not all need to know truth. Each human lives in his/her limited world of perception, and adapts accordingly. All that matters to each human, is their survival, and adaptation to circumstance.

Awesome TED Talk! All realities exist at any single moment. It is only what we choose to focus upon that creates the reality that we experience :D

Amazing!! Now I understand what "Relativity" IS!!

Brilliant. Great lecture. Thanks.

Would Love to know what your working on, where your life is headed. Would love to see what you see for just a few minutes. You've been reborn with a different mind...totally fascinating!

probably the best ted ive ever seen

Maybe the reason this talk has not gone viral is the title. It stresses one model (relativity) and not the basis of that model, and arguably, modern physics, waves and fields vice particles. And the larger message; an exploration of human evolution, a marriage of intuitive understanding with traditional learning.

Very good explanation, thanks for sharing.

I need to send this to everyone I know because I didn’t know how to explain it for other people to understand

What a beautiful presentation

Amazing layman description of fractals, doppler effect, relativity, and maybe string theory!

WOW! He explained it so good!

I wanted a deeper dive but it still was really good.

Awesome Jason!

*Amazingly explained.*

This explains the mandala effect and a lot of other phenomena. I like it.

Graduating as a pharmacist and spending most of my time studying biology it always intrigued me to know what relativity was since 10th grade. Always had questions like what is so wonderful about relativity? What is Einstein trying to explain? How are some people able to comprehend what Einstein is trying to say? I have watched a countless videos on relativity and never really understood what it meant and gave up with physics and mathematics and enrolled myself in Bachelors of Pharmacy. Now when i watch this video i realize i made a mistake.

omg he is right , such simple matter that i believe 99.99% people on earth didnt realize. its so simple yet we dont know it till he explain to us. wow this open a new world and idea 😱

In love this guy so much

I saw this dude on a really old talk show snippet and can't stop watching his stuff... why is there no movie about this guy?

It helped me a great deal to understand alt. realities👌

That was the best Ted Talk

This explains all the fuss about the blue and black dress..

one of the best TEd talks...relatively

I truly think this relativity also applies to our inner emotional world of thoughts and opinions. Whatever rule we live by it’s true and unique to us honoring the path we only knew we went through. When someone comes to judge, they are doing it from their own world of experiences where they not only weren’t there to see if they would’ve done the same but they are not this other person period. Every single human connects to the world throughout different thoughts, values, opinions made and built based on external stimulus from our families countries neighbors friends... it is non sense to think we are the same world of other just by sharing the same planet earth, it is nonsense to judge what we aren’t supposed to sync with.

this helps clarify concepts that's hard to grasp

The best bit for me was when the camera moved to the audience laughing. A group of people all finding joy in being told the reality that we live in and how basic principles bring about and infinite number of realities. What really made it stand out to me though is the contrast that scene would have if it was paired with a similar shot of people in a church or any other theistical place of worship. The universe is so beautiful it's a shame people can be so blind to it.

not sure if it's just me, but crowd seemed overly excited, certainly way more than my physics class when we covered relativistic effects. Maybe cause there's no homework in a TED talk?

that was deep AF!

So true. That's why you can read something over and over but it means something different at different times of your life because your point of view has changed.

This guy just changed my perception of everything in 6 minutes

0:10 Mi vida fue bastante superficial y sin preocupaciones durante los primeros 32 años. Fui a fiestas, y yo 0:24 las chicas perseguidas y yo usaría constantemente frases como "las matemáticas es estúpido y cómo 0:30 hace que las matemáticas realmente aplicaron algo en el mundo real." 0:34 Bueno, entonces en 2002 tuve una lesión cerebral y cambió para siempre la forma en que yo 0:40 ver la realidad, y en ese momento no tenía ningún entrenamiento matemático tradicional, así que 0:46 tuvo que aprender a explicarlo en términos normales cotidianos. Entonces, antes de lesión 0:52 cerebral cuando vi algo moverse parecía que se estaba moviendo suave y estaba 0:56 continuo, pero después de mi lesión cuando algo se movió a través de mi campo de visión 1:01 parecía agitado y discreto como yoestaba viendo un marco de vídeo por individual 1:07 marco, sólo en tiempo real. Y me sorprendió darse cuenta de que nuestro cerebro construye una 1:13 imagen en movimiento como un video o un libro de parpadeo pasado de moda. Sabes esos 1:17 viejos libros de parpadeos donde usted da vuelta a las páginas y usted escribe un carácter encendido 1:21 cada página y al girar las páginas parece que el carácter mueve, pero 1:24 el carácter se mueve nervioso. Bueno, cuando nuestro cerebro construye una imagen en movimiento es 1:29 sólo así, sólo nuestro cerebro suaviza las imágenes para que nos vean 1:34 fluido e ininterrumpido. Bueno, después de mi lesión todo ya no me parecía fluido 1:41 En otras palabras, esa fluidez de movimiento había desaparecido. Cuando algo se movió 1:46 Yo estaba muy consciente de los marcos. Si algo se mueve rápido, 1:51 los marcos de cuadros estaban más separados. Y si algo se mueve más lento los marcos 1:55 estaban más juntos. Y la velocidad que cambiaban los marcos en relación con 1:59 la velocidad de la luz era su velocidad. Y también dio a todo un poco 2:05 calidad pixelada. Es como si todo lo que se mueve se está moviendo en relación con un 2:10 matriz o una estructura de red o como píxeles en una pantalla de televisión. Y entonces, 2:16 que ver las cosas de esta manera me hizo 2:20 matemáticamente fue 2:22 absolutamente impresionante. Me hizo ver que para definir el movimiento a mi alrededor, todo 2:27 tenía que hacer era mirar dos momentos diferentes en el tiempo, dos marcos de cuadros, y 2:32 entonces yo compararía las diferencias y los cambios entre ellos. Y 2:36 si hice que los marcos de cuadros más cerca o el intervalo de tiempo más pequeño, 2:41 obtendría una visión más fluida y continua de la realidad. Y verse obligado a ver 2:48 de esta manera me empezó a pensar: si estoy viendo cuadros, entonces alguien más 2:54 en una posición diferente y moviéndose a una velocidad diferente con respecto a mí, 2:58 me preguntó si vieron los mismos marcos que vi? Bueno, eran preguntas 3:04 como esto que cambió para siempre mi visión de la realidad. Y la forma en que la realidad en realidad 3:13 funcionó resultó ser mucho más rico mucho más profundo y más ciencia ficción como 3:19 de lo que jamás podría haber imaginado. Y una de las mayores revelaciones que tuve cuando 3:24 estaba pensando en el movimiento era que el movimiento de un objeto cuando se mueve - su total 3:30 movimiento a través del espacio y el tiempo siempre equivale exactamente a la velocidad de la luz. Y 3:36 espacio y tiempo están tan íntimamente conectados, tan entretejidos, que realmente 3:42 no se puede separar, por lo que Einstein acuñó la frase "espacio-tiempo". Además, 3:47 todo en el universo muestra comportamiento ondulatorio, incluso el tiempo mismo. Incluso 3:54 nosotros, somos olas. Y cada sentido que ha evolucionado, depende de las ondas. 4:00 La vista, el sonido, el gusto, el tacto, el olfato, el sentido del magnetismo en animales, son todos 4:05 dependiente de las ondas. Por ejemplo, si olemos algo, muchos creen que 4:09 no sólo estamos detectando la forma de la molécula, sino su forma vibratoria 4:13 frecuencia. Cuando sentimos algo que es caliente o frío, 4:17 la razón por la que se siente caliente es porque las moléculas están vibrando más rápido y si 4:20 se siente más frío, es porque van más despacio. Por lo tanto, frío realmente no existe. Frío 4:25 es sólo menos vibración, Así que es sólo menos calor. Cuando escuchamos algo, estamos 4:30 dependiente de las ondas sonoras, y vemos algo que dependemos de las ondas de luz. 4:34 Y lo que es tan asombroso es que las olas cambian en función de la posición y la 4:40 velocidad del observador y observado. Quiero decir, ahora todos nosotros, somos 4:48 ondas mientras viajamos a través del espacio-tiempo. Por ejemplo, todo lo que incluye 4:52 ustedes, en este edificio, en el planeta, todos estamos vibrando a cierta frecuencia y 4:57 todos estamos moviéndonos por el espacio. Así como vibras y te mueves estás haciendo una ola 5:01 a través del espacio. Así que aquí todos estamos vibrando sentado en el planeta tierra 5:05 que está vibrando mientras se mueve alrededor del Sol que está vibrando mientras se mueve 5:09 alrededor de la galaxia. Así que literalmente somos una onda con una onda dentro de una onda dentro 5:14 una ola. Así que es algo bastante asombroso. Y lo que es realmente sorprendente es que todas 5:21 las ondas están sujetas al efecto Doppler. Así que cuando pensamos en cosas como 5:26 realidades alternas, universos paralelos o relatividad, es realmente difícil para muchos 5:31 de nosotros creer realmente que esto es algo que es real. 5:35 Quiero decir, mi camisa es azul, ¿no? No es azul, rojo y verde, ya sabes, todo al 5:40 mismo tiempo. Si yo fuera a cantar una nota en este momento, yo estaría cantando esa nota. Yo 5:46 no estaría cantando todas las notas en existencia. Pero en realidad, mi camisa es de todos 5:52 los colores. Y si yo cantaba una nota, 5:54 Se podría decir que, sí, estoy cantando cada nota en la existencia. Y 5:59 aquí está la mejor manera que puedo pensar para describirlo: 6:02 Hay algo llamado el efecto Doppler, y describe cómo las ondas cambian 6:07 basadas en el movimiento. Y así todos hemos escuchado una unidad de coche nos pasó. ¿Y sabes cómo cuando pasa un coche 6:12 nos pasa, suena como "wooooom" y cambia de tono? La razón por la que cambia 6:17 de tono es porque las longitudes de onda cortas del sonido, que escuchamos que como un tono alto. Y 6:21 la longitud de onda larga del sonido, escuchamos como un tono bajo. Así como el coche se está moviendo hacia 6:26 usted o hacia mí, esa onda sonora se está poniendo tipo de squished juntos como 6:31 las frentes de las ondas se acerquen, y oigo el tono de subir. Y luego el coche suena como 6:34 "woooom", y el tono baja cuando el coche se aleja de mí, porque esos frentes de las ondas 6:39 se están estirando y cada vez más separados por lo que oigo el tono 6:41 bajando. Pero ahora, si añadimos relatividad a ella, y decimos que el coche 6:47 se aleja 6:48 de la persona de la izquierda y hacia la persona de la derecha, bien 6:52 en relación con la persona de la izquierda 6:54 las ondas se extienden y se hacen más largas. Así que esa persona escucha un tono bajo. 6:58 Pero al mismo tiempo la persona de la derecha - las ondas se están comprimiendo y 7:03 acercándose. Ellos escuchan que el tono está aumentando. 7:07 Y la persona del coche, que están viajando con la fuente de sonido o con la fuente de onda para que 7:10 oigan un tono medio y ningún cambio de sonido en absoluto. Y entonces lo que haces justo allí 7:14 es, te paras y decir qué sonido es el coche realmente haciendo de verdad? Es una 7:21 pregunta rara, pero sí. ¿Es hacer un tono bajo a la persona de 7:25 la izquierda, un tono alto a la persona de la derecha, o un tono medio a la persona 7:29 en el coche? Y en realidad está haciendo los tres sonidos en relación a quién lo está viendo. 7:35 Y entonces usted dice que hay un número infinito de personas, y todos 7:39 están mirando ese coche, y todos están moviéndose a diferentes velocidades. Cada 7:43 persona escucha un sonido diferente, y cada realidad es real y 7:48 válida. Es que son relativas. Y así, sabes la pregunta "si un árbol 7:53 cae en el bosque, y nadie está bastante cerca de oírlo, ¿hace un sonido?" 7:56 No lo hace. Hace una ola, y sólo si hay algo con receptores de sonido 8:00 hace un sonido. 8:07 Y así, esta misma idea se aplica a la luz. Así que todos miramos mi camisa y decimos que mi 8:12 camisa es azul, ¿verdad? Puedes ver a dónde este esta dirige. 8:16 Entonces, decimos que mi camisa es azul. Pero el azul es una longitud de onda corta del sonido y el rojo es un 8:21 largo -- Lo siento, es una longitud de onda corta de la luz -- y el rojo es una larga longitud de onda de 8:25 luz. Y así, si todos en la audiencia tuvieran un gemelo y tu gemelo estuviera 8:29 aquí conmigo y nos disparáramos lejos de Uds. a la velocidad de la luz, las 8:34 longitudes de onda de la luz se extenderían y se alargarían y todos verían 8:37 mi camisa cambiando a rojo. ¿Pero tus gemelos en movimiento conmigo? Verían mi 8:41 camisa como azul. Y entonces otra vez preguntamos, qué color es mi camisa, rojo o azul? Y 8:47 es literalmente los dos. Y luego damos un paso más y decimos ahora imaginar 8:51 que hay un número infinito de personas que miran mi camisa y cada persona 8:55 se está moviendo a una velocidad diferente. Cada persona ve un color diferente y 9:00 cada realidad es real a pesar de que cada realidad es diferente. Y así cada 9:07 momento tiene el potencial de ser literalmente cualquier cosa. Y todo potencial puede ser cualquier 9:14 realidad. Es sólo las rebanadas de espacio-tiempo, los marcos de imagen que 9:19 te das cuenta, que se convierten en tu realidad. Pero todas las demás realidades que usted no ve 9:24 que no experimenta, son todas igualmente reales, es sólo que por tu 9:30 no se realizan. Gracias.

that was just awesome !!!!!!

Beautiful!

I can only wonder how amazing it would seem

Mind blowing

Wow, that really is incredible

that's really inspiring!

Ted you are amazing.

There are many movies made based on this very concept, some of the ones that made sense to me are Limitless, Lucy, Super deluxe & 24 (tamil) and what I learned from this talk orthese movies is that everything is RELATIVE, Good & bad, success & failure, happiness & sadness, every damn thing is RELATIVE and what's really sad is that we, wee lil human beings with our limited understanding of the Universe dictate everything and cause a lot of suffering, not only for our own kind but to other species as well!

Also seeing the people’s reactions in the audience when he says that thing about the tree falling and it not making a sound until something with sound receptors picks it up was amazing to me. Seeing a crowd of mixed race gender and age all in applause and astonishment of the regulation this man just dropped... you have to appreciate when someone can take something that would seem so hard to explain and they make it so easy and even intriguing to follow!

That is the best explanation of the theory of relativity that I have ever heard..... bar none.

I actually understood that perfectly :-)

this is right on

best ted speech ever!

what is holding this wave(our body's wave)? some kind of field? and what is it that is holding and moving this whole wave? waves travel and disperse but we as wave do extend for a long time . interesting view I got from this video

Obiwan: What I told you was true, from a certain point of view. Luke: From a certain point of view? Obiwan: Luke, you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Obiwan Kenobi, expert in relativity.)

this blew my mind.

Best way to explain Doppler effect

I had a 'aha' moment just now. Thank you Jason.

Man this was so elegant!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else stopping the vid after to first few minutes and then several hours have gone by and your still thinking about it and your toast is burned and everyone you know is suddenly older?

OOOHHHH! I always believed that all realities are present at the same time, I just never had the words to describe it. Plus I do believe that certain senses are more attuned to different wavelengths per each individual who experience them. Example: Not all people who are blind see absolutely nothing. Some of them actually see light in lit up areas and blackness in darker areas. They just can't distinguish any other notable objects in other people's reality. There is also the fairly commonly known concept of colorblindness. It appears in varying degrees in each individual that it is blatantly present in. I believe that everyone perceives sight, sound, taste, and touch differently depending on how sensitive they are in each aspect. My rant is over now haha.

Truely amazing

Excellent.

This is awesome! I never looked at the "tree falling in the forest" scenario that way.

I am not sure but somethings doesn't feel alright. When i search about him to know more of him i always find the same text audio or video describing how his life got changed from young ragged teenager to an enthusiastic mathematician and no other information like what he has done in this field any research paper.. Or anything

Amazing

I love his mind