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We are all concious of what we call this flow of time. We say 'time marches on', or 'time is dragging'. But where does this sense of flow come from? Well, that is very difficult to say. In fact it ...is very doubtful whether anyone has a completely satisfactory answer to that question. So let's turn to a somewhat different question - one that we think we can answer. The question is : if you take any two events, how do you decide which came first ? Or, in other words: how do we distinguish between past and future?
We are all concious of what we call this flow of time. We say 'time marches on', or 'time is dragging'. But where does this sense of flow come from? Well, that is very difficult to say. In fact it ...is very doubtful whether anyone has a completely satisfactory answer to that question. So let's turn to a somewhat different question - one that we think we can answer. The question is : if you take any two events, how do you decide which came first ? Or, in other words: how do we distinguish between past and future?
| Module code and title: | S100, Science foundation course |
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| Item code: | S100; A |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Jim Stevenson |
| Contributors: | Michael Pentz; Russell Stannard |
| Publisher: | Open University |
| Subject terms: | Time |
| Production number: | JOUZ397R |
| Videofinder number: | 4092 |
| Available to public: | no |
