Events

First blue sky thinking workshop: The arrow of time

An online workshop that brought together scientists and philosophers from around the world working on foundational problems relating to the arrow of time in theoretical physics, philosophy and biology, to discuss current problems and open issues in the field.

Manifest time and the laws of physics

Theoretical quantum physicist, Professor Gerard Milburn, outlined in his talk an apparent conflict between time, as we experience it, "manifest time", and time as it appears in physical law.

Loschmidt echoes evidence of the emergence of irreversibility for quantum many-body dynamics in the thermodynamic limit

Professor Horacio Pastawski joined us to discuss many-body time reversal.

Relational clocks, decoherence, and the arrow of time

This workshop took place at the University of Bristol and was based around the theme 'quantum ontology and the arrow of time'.

The second law of thermodynamics: from black-hole singularities to conformal cyclic cosmology

World-leading scientist Professor Penrose spoke about his cosmological scheme, which is also relevant to the arrow of time.

Discretised Hilbert space, fractal invariant sets and the measurement problem in quantum physics

Professor Palmer discussed his theory on discretised complex Hilbert spaces, which leads to a novel application of ideas in number theory to study possible deterministic underpinnings to quantum physics.

On the emergence of temporal structure in quantum cosmology

Experts in the field of philosophy of physics, general philosophy of science and theoretical physics, Karim Thébault and Nick Huggett, joined us to discuss the emergence of time in quantum cosmology.