Facing Time

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March 15, 2009

On a remote high desert mountain top in Eastern Nevada they're building a clock. But not just any clock – a monument sized all mechanical clock that will run for ten thousand years. It's built as an icon to long-term thinking. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll face time. We'll talk with the engineer of The Clock of the Long Now. Also, speed dialing be damned – we'll praise slow with Carl Honore. And, the physics of time travel. It's closer then you think.

Clock of the Long Now
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Alexander Rose tells Anne Strainchamps about the Clock of the Long Now — an all mechanical clock being constructed in the high desert of Western Texas designed to run for ten thousand years.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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Research and experiments on time travel being done by some of the world's leading theoretical physicists and David Toomey is here to tell us about it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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Lera Auerbach's obsession with time has impacted her life in music. We hear examples of her literary and musical achievements.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.

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March 15, 2009
October 10, 2010
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