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Did The Past Really Happen?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The dog
that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was credited
as Toto, but in reality the dog's name
was Terry. And when Terry died in 1945
her owner and trainer Carl Spitz buried her on his ranch
in Los Angeles. But in 1958
the Ventura Highway was constructed right
through Terry's grave. Her remains were
disturbed and have never been found. Fifty-three years later
a memorial was erected in Hollywood Forever Cemetery
in her honor but because she isn't burried
there, the memorial is not a grave. It's what's known
as a cenotaph, an empty
tomb. I was reminded of Toto's
cenotaph when I saw the cenotaph of Philopappos, atop the Hill of the Muses
in Athens. You see, I was recently in Greece
talking about YouTube with YouTube creators. The
all seen eye of Guy came along and we visited
the Acropolis, a Lion Gate - nearly a thousand years older than the Acropolis.
The earliest known analog computer. Plenty of beautiful
cats and I even took a selfie in
Delphi. I've seen all of these things and
how old they were, it made me wonder how will we
be remembered.
How will future archaeologists react to the ruins of today's
society they find thousands of years from now.
Will they do a good job piecing it
together? Will anything about you in particular
be remembered? And, for that matter,
how do we even know that the past really happened?
Not just the way we think it happened, but it all.
Seriously, can you prove that the universe wasn't created
last Thursday? That everything - every person, every memory you have,
every photo you've taken didn't just pop in into existence
last week or five minutes ago?
Last Thursdayism is the belief that the universe was created
last Thursday. It doesn't have actual
followers or rituals but proving it wrong
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