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Alfred North Whitehead St. Augustine Ajanta Caves: reclining Buddha Plato Charles Darwin Isaac Newton
relativity of simultaneity
David Hume
Listen to physicist Sean Carroll explaining the connection between entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
How do atomic clocks work?
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Alfred North Whitehead
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relativity of simultaneity
Brian Greene derives the time discrepancy between two people who are moving relative...
Video: © World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Listen to physicist Sean Carroll explaining the connection between entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
Physicist Sean Carroll explaining how the arrow of time is not an intrinsic property...
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How do atomic clocks work?
Overview of clocks, with a focus on atomic clocks.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Martian year
Learn how long a year is on Mars.
Video: JPL/NASA
Explore three simple ways and three complicated ways of time traveling
Learn about three simple ways (do nothing, walk, and stand up) and three complicated...
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead.
St. Augustine
St. Augustine, fresco by Sandro Botticelli, 1480; in the Church of Ognissanti, Florence.
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Ajanta Caves: reclining Buddha
Reclining Buddha statue, Ajanta Caves, north-central Maharashtra state, India.
© davidevison/stock.adobe.com
Plato
Marble portrait bust of Plato, from an original of the 4th century bce;...
© DeAgostini/SuperStock
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, 1881.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton.
© duncan1890— DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images
David Hume
David Hume, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish National Portrait...
Fine Art Images—Heritage Images/age fotostock
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