WNYC; Radiolab; Beyond Time
- Collection
- WNYC
- Series
- Radiolab
- Episode
- Beyond Time
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-02c86nq4
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- 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. A Simpler Time Have you ever wished you could time travel, like in the movies? Artist Terry Wilcox asks us to imagine 1,594 years into the future, when his sculptural clock will chime. A particle accelerator jockey at Brookhaven National Laboratory takes us 45 feet away from the beginning of time. And Swedish producer Marcus Lindeen introduces us to David McDermott, an artist who devotes his life to ignoring the present. See David McDermott and his art No Special Now It's not only artists who rebel against time, many physicists too take issue with our standard notion of clock time. Some even deny time exists at all. Blame Einstein. We peer into pandora's box of post- Einsteinian physics with Brian Greene, Michio Kaku and Lisa Randall to consider the implications of a world without time or choice. Complicating matters, neurologist V.S. Ramachandran offers yet more evidence that free will, even with something like wiggling your finger, is an illusion. Visit Michio Kaku"s website Visit Lisa Randall's website Brian Greene's website Brian Greene's Book: The Elegant Universe Visit V.S. Ramachandran"s website Mojave Road Finally, producer Ben Adair takes us on a tour of the Mojave desert and, in the process, confronts his own brevity in the face of geological time.
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- Magazine
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- Sound
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 60932.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
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- Citations
- Chicago: “WNYC; Radiolab; Beyond Time,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 21, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-02c86nq4.
- MLA: “WNYC; Radiolab; Beyond Time.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 21, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-02c86nq4>.
- APA: WNYC; Radiolab; Beyond Time. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-02c86nq4