#1300 Jim Al-Khalili - On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Jim Alkalili, he's a theoretical physicist who holds the position of distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Surrey in the UK. And today we're going to talk about his new book on time, the physics that makes the universe stick. So Doctor Alkalili, welcome to the show. It's an honor to everyone. Hello, thank you very much for having me. Okay great. So um
I imagine that the understanding of time that the physicist has is very different from how just a regular person understands time and also different from how we understand time or how we experience time psychologically, right? So
Акорденту фізик What is time? Ah, okay. Well, of course physicists and philosophers have been worrying about the meaning of time for thousands of years and and as as has have many people. Th the thing about time is it it's it's one of those concepts which
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