Why we chose this episode
Carroll explains why the past differs from the future without once losing the thread or talking down to you. It is physics, but it lands as something closer to a meditation on memory and mortality.
Listen for this question
If the future is open, what are you still treating as fixed?
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Who it’s for: Anyone who has wondered why time only runs one way and never got a satisfying answer.
Best way to listen
Late evening, lights low, nothing else on.
After the episode
Sit with the fact that this day will not happen again. That is all.
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