Time feels straightforward until you start looking a little closer. Then you realize it doesn’t always move the way we experience it. It stretches, bends, slows down, speeds up depending on where you are and how you’re observing it.
The more I learn, the more I realize time isn’t as fixed as we think it is.
What’s something that changed how you think about time?
There are certain ideas that don’t just teach you something new, they shift how you see everything.
The kind of concepts that make the universe feel a little bigger, or a little stranger, than it did before. Even if you don’t fully understand them, something about them sticks.
I’m always curious which ones do that for people. What’s a concept that changed the way the universe feels to you?
COSMIC CODA is about the in-between moments of scientific discovery - how it feels going to work each day on a machine that tests both the limits of our universe and our ability to comprehend this mind boggling goal.
Some burning questions: How do you build a machine to prove Einstein's Theory of General Relativity?
Will you need a screwdriver?
What does an astrophysicist do exactly on any given Tuesday while searching the cosmos?
In 1985, a clueless but educable filmmaker pursues these questions, skips 3 decades, then picks the story up again, 39 years later.
One of the most important discoveries in physics then, is told as it happens.
Much has changed in the world of astrophysics: more remarkably, much has not.
Scientists turn out to be human beings after all!