So here we are at the beginning of another year, resetting clocks and calendars,

enjoying the illusion of a fresh start.

But time, time doesn't stop and start.

We may chop night and day into artificial increments, hours, minutes, seconds,

but that's the real illusion. I'm Anne Strange Champs.

In this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge, what if we moved beyond the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

It's a new year, so let's talk about time.

Long time.

Music So let's talk about time. Long time. When new college was built, it was the new college, but it was 1380s that it was built.

And I had these huge oak beams over the main dining hall.

This is Alexander Rose.

500 years later, in the 1800s, when they had to renovate this hall,

these beams had become rotten and they needed to replace them.

And they couldn't actually just go by them anymore in England

and most of these trees were gone from all of Europe, in fact.

And it wasn't until they spoke to the school Forrester who said,

oh, well, we have the trees that you plant it.

It turns out that 500 years prior, when they built the hall, they also planted a grove of oak trees to be harvested 500 years later to replace those.

And it was this type of thinking that very clearly was not going on in our society where something even as simple as planting some acorns that could be leveraged over

centuries is not even considered anymore.

So how do we go back to planting those acorns?

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