What Is Time?

by Sam Harrelson on February 27, 2010

What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory | Wired Science | Wired.com: “I’m trying to understand how time works. And that’s a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it. A lot of them go back to Einstein and spacetime and how we measure time using clocks. But the particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg.”

I love this stuff.

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