Fabric of the Cosmos: "The Illusion of Time"

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Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094

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Event

Start Date

19-9-2014 2:00 PM

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PBS.org says of this episode from Brian Greene’s Nova series: “Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock you: They have no idea. Even more surprising, the deep sense we have of time passing from present to past may be nothing more than an illusion. How can our understanding of something so familiar be so wrong? In search of answers [drawn from his book of the same name] Brian Greene takes us on the ultimate time-traveling adventure.” Viewing of this video will be followed by a brief question and answer period lead by featured speaker Craig Callender.

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Episode 4 of Brian Greene’s Nova Series, with discussion

Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture

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Sep 19th, 2:00 PM

Fabric of the Cosmos: "The Illusion of Time"

Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094

PBS.org says of this episode from Brian Greene’s Nova series: “Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock you: They have no idea. Even more surprising, the deep sense we have of time passing from present to past may be nothing more than an illusion. How can our understanding of something so familiar be so wrong? In search of answers [drawn from his book of the same name] Brian Greene takes us on the ultimate time-traveling adventure.” Viewing of this video will be followed by a brief question and answer period lead by featured speaker Craig Callender.