Always Investigating with Audrey and Isaac

Join Audrey and Isaac as they look into the Mystery of Time: Reality or Illusion?

Time. It’s something we all feel, measure, and live by—yet it remains one of the greatest mysteries in science and philosophy. From the ticking of the clock to the expansion of the universe, we seem bound by time, with every second dragging us closer to the future and further from the past. But what if time isn’t as straightforward as it seems? What if it’s not something fundamental at all, but rather a kind of cosmic illusion?

In this exploration, we’re going to dive deep into the nature of time, examine if it truly exists as we think it does, and explore the possibility that time might just be a product of other physical phenomena like gravity and light. Get ready, because once you’ve thought about time this way, you may never look at your watch the same way again!

Imagine waking up one morning, everything feeling as it always has. You make breakfast, check your phone, complain about the weather or your favorite sports team’s latest loss. Everything seems perfectly normal. Then, suddenly, a thought hits you, the kind that refuses to leave. It nags at you, like an itch in your mind that you can’t scratch. The thought is this: What if I’m not human? What if I’m an artificial intelligence, programmed to think I’m human but not actually real?

Crazy, right? If you were an AI, would you even know? Could you tell the difference between being a real, flesh-and-blood human and a highly advanced AI simulation? What if you were programmed not to know?

So, are you AI? Are we both AI? Maybe we are, and maybe we’re not. But as long as we’re conscious, as long as we’re experiencing life in a way that feels real, then maybe that’s all that really matters.

Or is it?

In this episode let’s get suited up into our NBC Haz-Mat body suits, along with Audrey and Isaac, to venture deep into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Mystery – Was it Nature’s Doing or a Man-Made Disaster?

When the COVID-19 pandemic first swept across the globe, it felt like something out of a dystopian novel: cities deserted, streets eerily silent, and the hum of human life replaced by an ever-present fear of an invisible enemy. By early 2020, terms like “social distancing” and “flattening the curve” became part of everyday conversation. Economies shut down, travel was banned, and humanity entered a lockdown, the likes of which most had never experienced. But as we all grappled with this new reality, one question started to simmer beneath the surface: Where did COVID-19 come from?