Sep 19, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min · 11 segments
This roundtable explores the tension between the physics-based view of time—which explains its directional arrow through cosmic entropy and statistical mechanics—and the human experience of time as a…
Jacob BarandasGuest
Claudia BrodskyGuest
Barry LoewerGuestLeila DevachiGuestJerry HarwitzHost
Maria BalcellsGuestI'd like Barry to get started with a brief description of what I would call perhaps like a canonical sense of how time is understood in physics these days.
I think most people know that about 150 four years ago, there was this very famous debate in Paris between Bergson and Einstein, in which the whole business was, is the time of the physicists the same as the time of the philosophers? And I'd be more interested in whether it's the time of the ordinary human being.
I read over the transcript of the debate, and most of it is downright incoherent, in my view.
I'd like Barry to get started with a brief description of what I would call perhaps like a canonical sense of how time is understood in physics these days.
I think most people know that about 150 four years ago, there was this very famous debate in Paris between Bergson and Einstein, in which the whole business was, is the time of the physicists the same as the time of the philosophers? And I'd be more interested in whether it's the time of the ordinary human being.
I read over the transcript of the debate, and most of it is downright incoherent, in my view.
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