The reality of time

“Live the present” - it’s easy to say, it is much more difficult to do. And the reason is not so much in psychology as in the very nature of time and man. Think: right now, when you read these words, you are already in the past.
Understand the course of time: why it is accelerating, then slowing down where the past goes and where the future comes from - this has been dreamed of poets and philosophers from time immemorial. But they would hardly have coped without the help of scientists.
Jean-Claude Ameisen talks about people who can travel in time: about paleontologists who can look many millions of years ago to walk through the subtropical forests of Antarctica, about neurophysiologists trying to “stop” a moment, about astronomers who seek to predict a distant The future of the universe