Time Since Einstein
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Albert Einstein shattered previous ideas about time, but left many pivotal questions unanswered: Does time have a beginning? An end? Why does it move in only one direction? Is it real, or something our minds impose on reality? Journalist John Hockenberry leads a distinguished panel, including renowned physicist Sir Roger Penrose and prominent philosopher David Albert, as they explore the nature of time.
Moderator
John Hockenberry
Participants:
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology and the author of From Eternity to Here, about cosmology and the arrow of time. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, particle physics, and gravitation.
George Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Capetown, and investigates the physical foundations of the flow of time.. He is the co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Large Scale Structure of Space Time.
Michael Heller is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow, Poland. His research interest is the intersection of physics, philosophy and theology in describing the nature of time.
John Hockenberry is an award-winning journalist with twenty-five years experience in radio, broadcast television and print. He is co-host of WNYC and PRI's The Takeaway, host on The DNA Files, and a contributor to The Infinite Mind.
Fotini Markopouolou-Kalamara is an Adjunct Professor at the Univeristy of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She works to develop models of space-time that account for the flow of time.
Sir Roger Penrose has made seminal contributions to our understanding of space and time. In describing the initial conditions of the universe, he provided the foundation for studying the origins of the arrow of time.This event made possible with the support of
as part of the Big Ideas Series
