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Why not block time?

Is time real? Are we just puppets living out a future already written? Marina Cortês explains why she thinks time is fundamental and that we don't live in a block universe.
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The future is time

Marina Cortês is one of a growing number of physicists who believe time is fundamental. We ask her about the alternatives theories to the block universe, where time comes first.
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Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.

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Spacetime does ripple

Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.
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It from bit?

Does reality arise from information? What does this even mean? Anton Zeilinger explains the impact of John Wheeler's radical idea.
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Ada Lovelace - visions of today

We celebrate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, who anticipated modern computers long before they were built, with a look at her life and work.
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