Meet Carlo Rovelli at Â鶹´«Ã½ Live Pier Marco Tacca/Getty
We spend it, waste it and never seem to have enough of it – but what exactly is time?
In the quest to understand, we have developed super-accurate atomic clocks, probed the realm of quantum mechanics, and even messed with causality.
Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at Aix-Marseille University in France, uses his time to try to figure out this most fundamental question, and he’s coming to .
It’s a subject that touches a huge range of scientific disciplines, from the deep physics of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity to the neuroscience of how we humans experience the ticking seconds.
Rovelli, best-selling author of The Order of Time and one of the world’s leading thinkers on time, will bring them all together when he takes to the Main Stage of Â鶹´«Ã½ Live on 22 September.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Live is our award-winning festival of ideas and discoveries. The four-day event will feature more than 120 speakers giving thought-provoking talks on everything from the to the .
