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Veritasium just had a good video which discusses this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k

It turns out there's some circularity in your definitions of "Move clocks at the exact same speed and acceleration in opposite directions" and "synchronized"; that's basically the definition of "synchronized", which is fine from a certain point of view, but from the point of view of examining the nature of space and time themselves, not adequate.




That was a very neat video, and I learned some stuff too! Thanks for posting that.


He clickbaited me but good on that one, but it delivered the goods.


Long time Veritasium subscriber here. He actually made a great video a while ago explaining why professional Youtubers don't have much of a choice when it comes to clickbaiting with titles and thumbnails, because it's the only way to reliably get lots of impressions and views and grow their channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8

It made me gain a bit of empathy for creators using these tactics on Youtube and tolerate it as long as it's not being used to promote content that's devoid of any substance, which is pretty much never the case for Veritasium videos or any of the other educational channels I subscribe to.


Yes, I understand and agree. It makes me sad as well but I've made my peace with it.

Nevertheless, I commented about this one in particular because when I saw the title card, I legitimately thought, even having seen many of his videos, that he couldn't possibly deliver on that. He got me; he did. I was impressed.




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