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You're going forward through time, one second every second.

Congratulations, you're a time traveler.

A bit lame, but let's start here to get to the fun real -time travel to ride on dinosaurs and high -five Einstein.

Time isn't really a thing that passes, but a dimension, a direction you can move in.

We think our universe is four -dimensional, with three spatial and one time dimensions smooshed together into a fancy thing we call space -time.

What you experience as time passing and your life happening is actually you moving through the time dimension.

And this dimension is a bummer.

While you can go forward, backward, left and right, up and down in the space dimensions, in time you can only go forward.

You only get older, never younger.

You can't make detours.

But this is an illusion.

You have far more control over how you move through time.

To explain how this actually works, without making a maths video, we have to make a lot of physicists grumpy,

so please keep in mind that we're simplifying and lying a bit.

Okay, so there's a very strange rule.

Everything in our universe moves at the speed of light through four -dimensional space -time.

Your speed through space -time is the sum of your separate speeds through time and space.

It's impossible for you to stay still.

Even if you're not moving through space dimensions, you're moving through the time dimension, blasting face first into the future.

You can slow down in the time dimension by moving faster through the space dimensions,

but in total, you will always move at the speed of light through space -time.

If you could somehow truly stand still in space, you'd still move through time at the speed of light, and the other way around.

Photons, light particles, move at the speed of light through space.

They don't experience any time passing because their speed in that time dimension is zero.

In the time dimension, they're frozen in place.

If you see light on Earth, from the photon's perspective, it was just on the surface of the sun

and then suddenly crashed into your eye with nothing happening in between.

Remember, we're telling a science story here.

In real life, things are more complicated.

For one, it's impossible to truly stand still relative to space itself.

You can only be standing still relative to other things in space.

And you can't really define a reference frame for photons as we just did.

For details, check out our sources.

But now, back to our story.

Okay, so everything in the universe moves at the same breathtaking speed, but this speed is split between space and time.

Which leads to all sorts of wacky things and where we can see time travel happen.

Real and easy time travel.

When a bus drives past you, it's moving a little bit faster through space than you are.

So, it moves slower through time than you.

Or how it's usually worded, the bus is moving slower through time relative to you.

While this makes things feel like weird physics magic, it's very simple move faster through space,

go slower in time, move slower through space, go faster in time.

And if you had another person moving way faster or slower than you, both end up traveling different distances in the time dimension.

The story that's usually told to demonstrate this is to get twins, force one of them into a rocket against their will,

shoot them through space super fast while the other twin chills on Earth.

And because one twin moves very fast through space while the other moves slowly on Earth, They move at different speeds through time.

When the rocket finally gets home, they're no longer the same age,

and the younger space twin is ready to start years of therapy for being abducted by theoretical physicists.

This is the twin paradox, and it makes perfect sense within the rules of the universe.

If you want to learn more about the paradoxes of time, we made a video about it.

But in a nutshell, you're using time dilation, the fact that your position in time is subjective and only true for yourself.

With sufficiently fast rockets, you could get as far as you want into the future.

Technically, this way you can witness the end of the universe or look at the final thing that will ever happen.

We also made videos about that.

We should mention that there's another way to jump forward in time.

Massive objects bend space -time, causing time to go slower near them.

On Earth, the effect is tiny.

The gravity of our planet makes time pass 0 .00000007 % slower than in deep space,

far from any gravitational fields.

Hardly useful for time travel, but it's a start.

If you move into a really strong gravitational field, like around a black hole, the closer you get to the event horizon,

the slower time passes for you.

If we kidnap our twin again, they won't notice it at all.

Their watch ticks as fast as it always does.

But from the outside, they seem to almost stand still.

Only when the twin leaves the gravitational field and comes back to Earth do they realize they'd time -traveled.

Okay, so you can time travel to the future by going fast or near a black hole.

But this is pretty lame and has literally only downsides except for people who want to sort of teleport into the future.

And it makes building a gigantic human space empire super hard, because even if we develop the technology to go really super fast between stars,

going on a far away journey will always mean leaving your home as you knew it forever.

But now that we know all of this, there's actually a way we could use the rules of our universe to travel backwards through time.

The past is a far away land.

Let's go there.

So you always move through space -time at the speed of light.

If you go fast through the space dimension, you slow down in the time dimension.

And here we find an actual opening for backwards time travel.

The theory of relativity, which may be the most solid scientific theory we know, does not forbid faster -than -light motion through space.

If you move through the space dimension faster than the speed of light, superluminal, you need to move through the time dimension with negative speed.

That means you go backwards through time relative to the rest of the universe, into the past.

Actually, scientists have been looking for superluminal particles and given them a name, tachyons.

They could exist and would have wild properties, like getting faster when they lose energy, and, of course, traveling backwards in time.

Finally, real time travel.

Just like with photons, it isn't really possible to clearly define how time passes for tachyons themselves.

It depends on how you move through space -time relative to them.

But now, for the first time, some observers could actually see tachyons literally traveling backwards in time,

which means they could be used to directly interact with the past.

In theory, you could use them to send messages to your past self

and change all sorts of things that have already happened.

Maybe with some tachyon -powered sci -fi future tech, you could see a star die before it was born,

meet your great -grandparents, prevent your past self from making that one dumb mistake, win the lottery or get eaten by dinosaurs,

and create juicy time paradoxes that also kind of break the universe.

Oh, what's that?

Right.

Hmm.

It seems there are things in our universe that are impossible to mix.

Unfortunately, the theory of relativity specifically forbids anything

that starts out traveling slower than the speed of light to reach the speed of light.

Because moving faster through space requires energy, and the energy required to reach the speed of light is literally infinite.

Even if you could gather all the energy of the universe, you couldn't accelerate a grain of sand to the speed of light.

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You can get as close as you like, but you can never reach it.

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It is possible to move at the speed of light as photons do, but they always move at the speed of light.

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If you move superluminally, you will always move superluminally.

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And sadly, so far, we don't have the tiniest bit of evidence that tachyons exist.

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While they work on paper, most scientists think they're not real.

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So for now, it seems that time travel into the past is strictly impossible, no matter how hard we try.

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The past is a faraway land, and while we can look at it in pictures and movies and our memories, it's locked away.

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Forever outside of our reach.

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While this is sad, it leaves you with the most important time there is.

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Right now, the moment where you actually exist, and a future that's yours to forge.

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If you want, you could even time travel to it.

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We found a way to evade the laws of the universe and go on a truly breathtaking time travel adventure.

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Are you ready?

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Well, too bad.

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Here we go!

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Look, it's the human era.

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12 ,000 years of human innovation brought to life.

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Absolutely incredible how our ancestors laid the foundation for the life we lead today.

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Let's go back even further and take a look at the timeline of life.

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Wow, humans are only a tiny blip at this scale.

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Mammals haven't been around for long either.

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Here's the age of the dinosaurs.

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And going further back, we can see where it all began.

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You can now go on your very own time travel adventure with our Timeline of Human History

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：space, speed, dimension, travel, universe。这段视频共有 38 个句子、1958 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 11:03。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 177 个词，接近日常对话。 86% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
dimension 名词	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	方面, 特點 /特点
twin 名词	/twɪn/	雙胞胎 /双胞胎, 雙生子 /双生子
backward 形容词	/ˈbækwɚd/	逆向
relative 名词	/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/	親戚 /亲戚
lesson 名词	/ˈlɛs.ən/	課業 /课业, -課 /-课
rocket 名词	/ˈɹɑk.ɪt/	火箭發動機 /火箭发动机, 火箭
scientist 名词	/ˈsaɪəntəst/	科學家 /科学家
mathematics 名词	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	數學 /数学, 算學 /算学
timeline 名词	/ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/	年表, 時間軸 /时间轴
dinosaur 名词	/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/	恐龍 /恐龙
paradox 名词	/ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/	悖論 /悖论, 矛盾
adventure 名词	/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/	奇遇, 冒險 /冒险
physics 名词	/ˈfɪz.ɪks/	物理學 /物理学
define 动词	/dɪˈfaɪn/	界定
explore 动词	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	探索, 探險 /探险

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
check out 动词	退房
end up 动词	到达
go back 动词	回去, 返回
going forward 副词	放眼未來 /放眼未来
sign up 动词	報名 /报名, 註冊 /注册

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：

You’re going forward through time one second every second.
Congratulations, you’re a time traveler!
It's impossible for you to stay still.

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
条件句 if + 从句，will/would + 动词 — 条件及其结果	If you move superluminally, you will always
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	have already happened · has also partnered · haven't been
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is split · being abducted · was born

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 16 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you'll, can't, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, breathtaking /ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
长单词——注意重音位置: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, solve /sɒlv/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: backward /ˈbækwɚd/, relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, rocket /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/, scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/, particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/, strictly /ˈstɹɪktli/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 dimension, twin, backward 这类单词。

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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