:18:02
The rest of it is vacuum.
:18:04
What seems to happen is that particles
appear and disappear all the time.
:18:07
So where do they go
when they're not here?
:18:10
Now, that question is tricky.
:18:13
I'm gonna give you two answers--
Answer number one:
:18:17
They go into
an alternative universe...
:18:20
where the people in that universe
are asking the same question...
:18:23
about those particles when
they come into our universe.
:18:26
They say, ''Where do they go?''
[ Chuckles ]
:18:31
[ Man ] There's a great mystery called
the mystery of the direction of time.
:18:36
There's a certain sense in which the
fundamental laws of physics that we have...
:18:39
don't make any interesting distinctions,
say, between past and future.
:18:43
Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint
of the fundamental laws of physics...
:18:49
why we should be able to...
:18:52
um, remember the past, um...
:18:55
and not have the same kind
of epistemic access to the future.
:18:59
It's a puzzle from the standpoint
of these laws...
:19:03
why we should think something like
by acting now...
:19:06
we can affect the future
but not the past.
:19:09
These things-- that we have a different kind
of epistemic access to the past and future...
:19:14
that we have a different kind
of control by acting now...
:19:17
over the future
than we do over the past...
:19:20
these things are so fundamental
to the way we experience the world...
:19:25
that, um-- um--
:19:28
that it seems to me,
not to be curious about them is to be...
:19:31
you know, three-quarters
of the way to being dead.
:19:43
Wanna shoot some hoops?
:19:50
Now, you don't have
to be like that.
:19:52
Come on and play.
:19:54
Look. He likes you.
:19:57
Don't you have time for
a little one-on-one?