Wait a second—how physics explains time to us!

Live Podcast at the Planetarium

Time: We divide it up and keep track of it. We take time for ourselves and give it to others. Yet it also slips through our fingers time and again. Every day, we try anew to master time with clocks and calendars—and yet we never quite manage to grasp it.

So what’s going on in the “fourth dimension”?

Can we perhaps understand time better using the tricks of physics? Slow it down? Or reverse it? Or even travel through it?

Physicist Michael Büker and science journalist Jens Schröder answer these kinds of questions in a lively, interactive reading. “Sekunde Mal” is the title of the book they’ve written together with physicist Johannes Kückens about the nature of time. As a trio, they’re known from the Audible Original podcast “Sag mal, du als Physiker.”

On the planetarium stage, they’ll approach the phenomenon of time with their usual good humor and systematic approach: from A for atomic clock to Z for time travel. So if you have a little time to spare—this reading is a wonderful and enlightening way to pass the time. And at the end, there’s sure to be time left for a few questions from the audience.