Renowned physicist and esteemed dinner partygoer Brian Greene is launching a new lecture series this semester concerning the relative nature of time. Greene explained that the lecture series is an “intensive exploration of how the very concept of time itself is skewed in a manner that may have broader societal implications.”
“Indubitably,” he explains, “the way we perceive time in our daily lives may be altogether different from what society has come to accept, especially in regards to age.”
Greene provided multiple thought experiments in his lecture to demonstrate this fluctuating nature of time. Lecturing in front of a graphic he made in Canva, Greene explained that “a private jet traveling incredibly quickly, to a hypothetically awesome private island, could leave passengers at a relatively different age depending on the speed of the jet. Jet passengers could have YEARS added to their supposed age, from 13 or 14 to well within legal bounds, not to mention international waters…” Greene trailed off before including another example or explaining what he meant by “international waters.”
“We all accept that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, thus all matter in the universe must have an age of 13.8 billion years. Furthermore, in the vast cosmic scale of time, a mere five to ten years is an infinitesimally small quantity.” Greene announced this lecture series while simultaneously being criticized for his involvement in the Epstein files, but when reached out for comment by The Fed, Greene explained that not only was this unrelated, but that true simultaneity was impossible given what we know about relativity.
