* Astronomy

 Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Tickets available on Tuesday, May 22.

Many 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. Julian Barbour will explore how the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of quantum gravity suggests the fundamentally timeless nature of the quantum universe.
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Ed ~ quantum theory is incomplete.