Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago

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Miriam Frankel explores the nature of time with physicists and philosophers Sean Carroll, Emily Adlam and Natalia Ares, in episode one of Great Mysteries of Physics — a podcast series from The Conversation, in collaboration with FQxI.

Read more about the series: theconversation.com/great-mysteries-of-physics-1-is-time-an-illusion-201026

Visit qspace.fqxi.org to learn more about the mysteries of time.

Natalia Ares shows us around her Oxford lab and explains how she is using carbon nanotubes to investigate time's arrow in this short FQxI film: qspace.fqxi.org/videos/246