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Time feels obvious, but physics tells a stranger story about its existence: Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores why our sense of time may be incredibly misleading, including the idea that past, present, and future might all exist at once.

0:00 Chapter 1: Does time flow?
2:42 Why Time Feels Faster as We Age
3:56 Time and Change in Philosophy and Physics
5:28 Einstein and the End of Absolute Time
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