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Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

Sean Carroll · TED

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About

Cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view of the nature of the universe, and our place in it.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxCaltech
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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