How to Keep Time: Time Tips From the Universe

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may be too big to fully comprehend, but what we do know could help inform the ways we approach our understanding of ourselves, our purpose, and our time. Theoretical physicist and black-hole expert Janna Levin explains how the science of time can inspire new thinking and fresh perspectives on a much larger scale. Music by Rob Smierciak (“Slow Money, Money Time, Guitar Time, Ambient Time”), Gavin Luke (“Time Zones”), Hanna Lindgren (“Everywhere Except Right Here”), and Dylan Sitts (“On the Fritz”). Write to us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.7	Windows PCs ever. Bachelor life varies with you switching settings. The one sense in which time is
0:34.2	frustratingly different is that I cannot extend equally in each direction.
0:41.0	I cannot just turn around and go into the past.
0:44.6	Okay.
0:45.2	And I seem to be always driven forward into the future.
0:49.5	I can stand still in space, but I can't seem to stand still in time.
0:58.3	Welcome to How to Keep Time. I'm Becca Rashid, co-host and producer of the show.
1:03.8	And I'm Ian Bogost, co-host and contributing writer at The Atlantic.
1:13.6	One time I took a nap and I remember I woke up at sunset,
1:17.0	but it looked like dawn.
1:18.6	And I was like, I'm late for work.
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