{"id":2990,"date":"2009-10-19T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:19:25","slug":"talking-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/talking-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in the middle of jetting hither and yon, talking to people about the arrow of time. (Wouldn’t it be great if I had a book<\/a> to sell them?) Right now, as prophesyed, I’m at the Quantum To Cosmos Festival<\/a> at the Perimeter Institute. They’re extremely on the ball over here, so every event is being recorded by the ultra-professional folks at TVO<\/a>, and instantly available on the web. So here is the talk I gave on Saturday night<\/a> — a public-level discussion of entropy and how it connects to the history of our universe.<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s a pretty suave picture of me on the image capture. What can I say? I’m just one of those lucky folks with an effortless magic in front of the camera.<\/p>\n

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If you prefer to get your talks about entropy unadulterated by voice and motion, and don’t mind a more technical presentation, I’ve put the slides from my recent Caltech colloquium<\/a> online. These are aimed basically at grad students in physics, so there is an equation or two, and the caveats are spelled out more clearly. But the punchline is the same.<\/p>\n

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