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Stuff happens: The physics of events

Science is the study of events: things that happen in the world around us. But what exactly is an event? The answer is harder than you might think.
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The crystallising Universe

According to Einstein, the past, present and future have exactly the same character - so why do we feel that there is a particular moment we call "now"? The physicist George Ellis looks for an answer in the curious laws of quantum mechanics.