Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
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Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
Since we can’t prove that time physically exists, it must live somewhere inside the human mind. With the help of neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann, this episode takes a closer look at subjective time — the time we ‘feel’ — to see how our brains create our sense of time, and why it’s constantly speeding up and slowing down. This episode in brief 1. How we are able to perceive time | 02:30 Time processing plays a role in almost all aspects of our cognitive function. But what exactly is happenin...
About Time
Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
