Ideas | Philosophy
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Chapter one
Discovery
Matter | Physics
Life is a Braid in Spacetime
How to see yourself in a world where only math is real.
Matter | Physics
Ingenious: Max Tegmark
A bird’s-eye view on life and the universe.
Matter | Physics
In Search of Time’s Origin
What happened before the Big Bang?
Chapter two
Perception
Matter | Physics
Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics
To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal.
Biology | Psychology
Making Good Use of Bad Timing
We bend time to make our world make sense.
Culture | Psychology
Why We Procrastinate
We think of our future selves as strangers.
Chapter three
Use
Culture | Psychology
The Pleasure and Pain of Speed
Are we willing to speed our lives up indefinitely?
Matter | Physics
Inconstants of Nature
If the constitution of nature itself were changing in time, how would you know?
Culture | Chemistry
Should Science Save Modern Art?
Keeping Father Time at bay is more than a question of chemistry.
Numbers | Art
Photographing Time
The speed of photography through the ages.
Chapter four
The Future of Time
Biology | Anthropology
Brave New Epoch
A search for humankind’s mark on the Earth.
Ideas | Literature
Developing the DeLorean
Literature and science, working together to travel through time.
Matter | Physics
The Metaphysical Baggage of Physics
Lee Smolin argues that time is more fundamental than physical laws.
Culture | Music
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
A composer details how music works its magic on our brains.
Biology | Evolution
Evolution, You’re Drunk
DNA studies topple the ladder of complexity.
Matter | Physics
The Mystery of Time’s Arrow
Past and future may not be what they seem.
Matter | Physics
Initial Conditions
Sean Carroll and Alan Guth talk about time.
Matter | Physics
The Quantum Mechanics of Fate
How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.
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