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Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. Each event is tailored for the general public and everyone is welcome to attend. No mathematical or scientific knowledge is necessary or assumed.
Public Lectures are held at Waterloo Collegiate Institute. See Location and Parking for details. Attendance is free, but advance tickets are required. Due to the overwhelming response to past lectures, tickets will be honoured until 6:45 pm only. If you have not arrived by 6:45 pm, your reservation may be filled by guests on our waiting list and you may be asked to join the end of the waiting list. PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are available starting at 9:00 am on the specified date and sell out very quickly. Due to the high volume of traffic to our website at the moment when free tickets become available, you may have difficulty accessing the site on your first attempt. Please continue to try to log in, as this is still the best way to obtain tickets. Due to the demand for tickets to our lectures, a maximum of two (2) tickets may be ordered per account. | | |
| Julian Barbour, author
Does Time Exist? Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:00 pmMany attempts to create a unified theory of the universe using relativity and quantum mechanics suggest that time as we seem to experience it does not exist - it may be only a well-founded illusion. The idea of a timeless universe can be traced back to Plato and his insistence that only being is real, while becoming is an illusion. In this talk, Prof. Barbour will explore how the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of quantum gravity suggests the fundamentally timeless nature of the quantum universe. He will also raise unresolved mysteries of our conscious experiences, and why these might provide insight into how a fundamentally timeless universe may be perceived as intensely temporal. A key result of his proposal could be an explanation of the asymmetry between the past and the future. Tickets become available on Tuesday, May 22. |
JULIAN BARBOUR, a theoretical physicist, has worked independently on foundational issues in physics for 45 years, specializing in the study of time and inertia. He is the author of Absolute or Relative Motion?, The End of Time, and The Discovery of Dynamics.
He lives on a farm north of Oxfordshire, England and has been a visiting professor at University of Oxford since 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Buckingham in 2010. | | |
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