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| In Search of Time |
| Dan Falk |
| Thursday, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:00 PM |
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| Time is at once intimately familiar and yet deeply mysterious. It is thoroughly intangible: we say it “flows” like a river ¬ yet when we try to examine that flow, the river seems reduced to a mirage, for there is nothing in physics corresponding to time’s passage. No wonder philosophers, poets, and scientists from Aristotle to Einstein have grappled with the enigma of time for centuries. Canadian science journalist Dan Falk tackles the mystery of time in his recent book, In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension (St. Martin’s Press, 2008). In this illustrated talk, Dan will discuss some of the most intriguing aspects of time: how our ancestors first learned to measure it; how we suspect it ¬and the universe ¬ began, and what the “end of time” may hold for us; and a brief look at the physics of time travel and the paradoxes it seems to entail.
Dan is currently spending the academic year here in Cambridge, where he is pursuing a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT for 2011-12.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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