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Futureproof Gold: Time

We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that f lows uniformly, indepe...

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07.00 22 Aug 2019


Futureproof Gold: Time



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We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that f lows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past to the future, measured by clocks and watches.

In the course of time, the events of the universe succeed each other in an orderly way: pasts, presents, futures.

The past is fixed, the future open. . . . And yet all of this has turned out to be false.

Carlo Rovelli is Director of the quantum gravity group of the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) of the Aix-Marseille University and Author of The Order of Time

First aired 21/7/2018


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