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What Is Time?

Sten Odenwald

Mar 1, 2024

An astronomer explains the search to find its origins...

St. Augustine said of time, “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain to him who asks, I don’t know.” Time is an elusive concept: We all experience it, and yet, the challenge of defining it has tested philosophers and scientists for millennia. 


This article was originally published in the May 2022 issue of Astronomy. Read the rest of the article here.


 

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