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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A new theory on the flow of time
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:00:58
	Publish Date:		2016-10-13 19:00:00
	Description:		The flow of time has been pondered by the likes of Aristotle, Augustine and Einstein. Now, physicist Richard Muller, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a new theory. "My theory postulates that space and time are so tightly linked in general relativity that if create more space, you’re creating more time. If the expansion of time, starting with the Big Bang and now coasting ahead is constantly creating more space, it must also be creating new time and the newly creating space is the space between the galaxies and the newly created time is what we call ‘now’." Muller’s theory of the flow of time led to a collaboration with Caltech that explains the theory in more detail – using mathematics – and proposes a way to test it using LIGO, an experiment that detects gravitational waves created by merging black holes. Stay tuned!
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