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The nature of time is an age-old conundrum for physicists, philosophers, biologists and theologians. The Newtonian picture of time—a kind of cosmic clock that ticks off time in a manner that applies identically to everyone and everything—tightly aligns with our experience. But with special and general relativity, Einstein showed the fallacy inherent in experience: the rate at which time elapses depends on circumstance and environment. These discoveries raise even more basic, long-standing puzzles: What is time? Is it a fundamental feature of reality or something we humans impose on experience? Does time come into existence with the universe or does it transcend it? Why does time exist at all?Learn More
TOPICS: Physics & Math, Space & The Cosmos
TAGS: 2013, A Matter of Time, Craig Callender, does time exist, Einstein, full program, General relativity, ira flatow, Max Tegmark, nature of time, New York City, Newtonian picture of time, NYC, paul davies, rate at which time elapses, science of time, Special relativity, Tim Maudlin, what is time, when did time start
PLAYLISTS: Big Ideas, Physics & Mathematics
Video Duration: 01:27:52
Original Program Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013
The nature of time is an age-old conundrum for physicists, philosophers, biologists and theologians. The Newtonian picture of time—a kind of cosmic clock that ticks off time in a manner that applies identically to everyone and everything—tightly aligns with our experience. But with special and general relativity, Einstein showed the fallacy inherent in experience: the rate at which time elapses depends on circumstance and environment. These discoveries raise even more basic, long-standing puzzles: What is time? Is it a fundamental feature of reality or something we humans impose on experience? Does time come into existence with the universe or does it transcend it? Why does time exist at all?Learn More
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TAGS: 2013, A Matter of Time, Craig Callender, does time exist, Einstein, full program, General relativity, ira flatow, Max Tegmark, nature of time, New York City, Newtonian picture of time, NYC, paul davies, rate at which time elapses, science of time, Special relativity, Tim Maudlin, what is time, when did time start, 2013, A Matter of Time, Craig Callender, does time exist, Einstein, full program, General relativity, ira flatow, Max Tegmark, nature of time, New York City, Newtonian picture of time, NYC, paul davies, rate at which time elapses, science of time, Special relativity, Tim Maudlin, what is time, when did time start
PLAYLISTS: Big Ideas, Physics & Mathematics
Video Duration: 01:27:52
Original Program Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013
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