Gold: What is time?

10 September - 28 mins
Podcast Series Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that flows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past to the future, measured by clocks and watches.

In the course of time, the events of the universe succeed each other in an orderly way: pasts, presents, futures.

The past is fixed, the future open... And yet, all of this has turned out to be false.

Carlo Rovelli is a Theoretical Physicist and author of ‘The Order of Time’ and joins Jonathan to discuss.

First aired 21/7/2018

28 mins

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Futureproof Gold: Chances Playing

Futureproof Gold: Chances

We tend to glean a lot of meaning from the random occurrences in our lives, it can give us a sense of place in a chaotic and frightening world. But what are the chances of seemingly impossible, miraculous events in our lives and can we reduce them down to numbers and figures? In this special feature from May 2019, Jonathan sought to find out...

32 mins

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