Radio Lab, Show 105: Beyond Time

Summary:

A closer look at relativity... and the scientists and artists waging a war against the tyranny of the clock.

Website:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/season/radiolab.html

Additional Credits and Funding:

Host/Producer Jad Abumrad, Co-Host Robert Krulwich, Producer Ellen Horne, Production Executive's Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor

Tones:

Contemplative, Edgy, Humorous

Language:

English

Description:

Einstein's Theory of Relativity may have implications on the concept of choice. Namely, that there is none. Do we choose what movie to see tonight? No. (It's already been chosen, some say.) Do we choose to wiggle our finger? No. (Already wiggled.) This hour of Radio Lab features conversations with scientists and an entire cast of characters who are all waging battle against time ? or at least the common sense view of time. We'll visit a particle accelerator where scientists recreate the moment just after the beginning of time...and also a Dublin artist whose life is a 19 century time-experiment. We end in the Mojave desert, where geologic time flows like a frozen hourglass.

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