Summary
It sometimes seems to rule our lives and yet some scientists think it is an illusion.
From birth to death we seem to be swept up in a relentless and inescapable journey through time, but what is this strange place we call the present moment?
Why does the past seem fixed and the future so uncertain.
Was the universe born into time or did time arise with the universe?
Will time continue forever or will it fade like the stars?
These are some of the questions that were discussed at a recent conference in Bergen and Copenhagen and on a ship between the two.
In Discovery this week, science writer Zeeya Merali joins some of the leading physicists and cosmologists discussing the nature of time and its place in our lives and the Universe.
Producer: Martin Redfern
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Cladie Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 1:01.8 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 1:06.2 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 1:11.2 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 1:13.5 | Cladiyated! |
| 1:15.5 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
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