# Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCaltech
- Speaker: Sean Carroll
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Astronomy and space, Philosophy
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_distant_time_and_the_hint_of_a_multiverse)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Distant time and the hint of a multiverse](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sean_carroll_distant_time_and_the_hint_of_a_multiverse/9f71bf65450d), 16 min (TED's player)