When Time Stands Still | Lee Smolin, Michael Duff, Eleanor Knox

When Time Stands Still | Lee Smolin, Michael Duff, Eleanor Knox

Author: IAI December 13, 2016 Duration: 30:27

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We structure our lives on the flow of time. Yet physicists since Einstein have argued that all time, past, present and future, is like space provided in a single block. Is the flow of time an illusion? Are we deceived when we feel time passing, or is it time to strike the strangeness from our science?

Author of Time Reborn Lee Smolin, live from Ontario, joins Imperial theoretical physicist Michael Duff and KCL metaphysician Eleanor Knox to reunite science and experience.

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