Time is fundamental to understanding both the universe and our existence as sentient creatures who are cognizant of the past, present and future? But what is time? Does it even exist? If so is it universal or purely relative? Is it fundamental or merely an emergent property, or is it just a product and instrument of our cognition to better navigate our surroundings that has no external, objective existence. Einstein’s theory of relativity postulates that gravity is a curvature of space and subsequently time is relative in an overall manifold suture of space-time. Quantum mechanics poses different issues for time due to the superposition and entanglement of particles as well as the utilisation of probabilities instead of determinism. On the other hand, the arrow of time is the “one-way direction” or “asymmetry” of time. The thermodynamic arrow of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, which says that in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase over time. There appears to be a disconnect regarding the overall structural and conceptual framework of time. So what is time?
Interview & discussion with Professor Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is one of the world’s leading thinkers and public intellectuals. He is a theoretical physicist and philosopher who specialises in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and philosophy of science. Formerly a research Professor at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he is currently an external Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Bradford Skow
Bradford Skow is one of the world’s leading Philosophers of Science an and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his works on metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Craig Callender
Craig Callender is one of the world’s leading experts on time and a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Tim Maudlin
Tim Maudlin is one of the world’s leading Philosophers and a leading expert in the philosophy of quantum mechanics, who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He is Professor at New York University.