This chapter explores a year-long journey intertwining space travel and local community dynamics amidst gentrification. It highlights the significance of cosmic perspectives, the challenges of urban life, and initiatives aimed at combating light pollution while fostering connections with the natural night sky.
Our lives are so rushed, so busy. Always on the clock. Counting the hours, minutes, seconds. Have you ever stopped to wonder: what are you counting? What is this thing, that’s all around us, invisible, inescapable, always running out? What is time?
Original Air Date: November 18, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
Time, loss and the Big Bang — Finding solace in the vastness of space — Carlo Rovelli's white holes, where time dissolves
Guests:
Marcelo Gleiser, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Carlo Rovelli
Check out the full series at ttbook.org/deeptime