Are We Alone for 01/03/10 - Time's Mysteries Part II: Warping Time

Are We Alone - Time's Mysteries Part II: Warping Time

ENCORE: Ever since Einstein, we’ve known that time doesn’t barrel willy-nilly into the future. Moving clocks tick at a different rates, and by riding a fast rocket, we can slow time to a crawl. Such tricks may give you a way to see the distant future, but can you go back in time?

Discover one man’s quest to build a time machine. Also learn how to put the brakes on aging by getting near a black hole.

Plus, does your entire life really pass before your eyes if you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge? Our perception of time.

Guests:

• Roy Gould – Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Ronald Mallett – Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut, and author of The Time Traveller
  
• Simon Steel – Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• David Eagleman – Neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action

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