Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity, which apply to nature on large scales, showed that time is relative rather than absolute - it can speed up or slow down depending on how fast you are travelling, for example. (Jordan Benton / Pexels)
Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, which apply to nature on large scales, showed that time is relative rather than absolute - it can speed up or slow down depending on how fast you are travelling, for example. (Jordan Benton / Pexels) Western's Emily Adlam talks theories of time on The Conversation's podcast "Great Mysteries of Physics" By The Conversation, Special to Western News, March 13, 2023 By The Conversation, Special to Western News, March 13, 2023 Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists aren't sure whether the sort of time we experience exists at all. This is the topic of the first episode of our new podcast series, Great Mysteries of Physics. Hosted by me, Miriam Frankel, science editor at The Conversation, and supported by FQxI , the Foundational Questions Institute, we talk to three researchers about the nature of time. Scientists long assumed that time is absolute and universal - the same for everyone, everywhere, and existing independently of us. It is still treated in this way in quantum mechanics, which rules the microcosmos of atoms and particles.
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