What is time? Is time real? How important is it to have accurate time in the modern world and space as well?

So as you move around space, you are also moving in time.

Hello and welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.

With me, science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smathers.

Start your stopwatches, set your timers, turn back your clocks.

This is getting tiring, but you get the picture, right?

This month we're talking about time.

What is it?

How and why do we even measure it?

And is time even real or is it a human construct?

Yeah, it's a big show with lots of big questions and the head scratches are coming in early.

So we'll be speaking with a woman who works on one of the world's most accurate clocks.

And editor Richard has been to the very heart of time itself in Greenwich.

And that's all coming up.

And a quick note to say that I have sorted out the ad-free version of the podcast.

It's taken me a while.

Sorry, everyone.

Thank you for your patience.

But no, the Supermassive

Club does exist. There is a link for those that don't want any adverts and would like to

support the show in our episode description and we'll talk a little bit more about it later on

in the show. But that is the beginning of my admin. You can breathe a sigh of really busy now.

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