Jim Al-Khalili

Petworth welcomes back the quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC regular Jim Al-Khalili, to offer his essential insights into the meaning and fundamental nature of time

While we have come a long way toward deciphering the laws of the universe, many physicists still regard time to be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. In his latest book On Time, Jim Al-Khalili provides answers to the questions that philosophers and scientists have been asking for millennia, such as whether it has a beginning and an end, why it only points toward the future and not the past, whether it can be stretched and squeezed or even reversed, and whether it is even real. Reviewers have already suggested that On Time will forever change the way you think about the passage of time and your place within it.