All you ever wanted to know about how we perceive time, how we measure time and how time changes as we get older
Have you ever got to the end of a year and asked yourself 'where has all the time gone?' Are you someone wondering why time seems to go so quickly as we grow older, compared to the summers which went on forever when we were young? Or do you find yourself wondering just how we started to measure time in the first place?
If so, this is probably the podcast for you. A psychologist (Prof Samantha Dockray from UCC), a mathematician (Prof David Malone from Maynooth University) and a theoretical physicist (Dr Venus Keus from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) join presenter Ronan Kelly to take a closer look at the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, microseconds, milliseconds and centiseconds of our lives.
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The credits: this epsiode of the RTÉ Brainstorm podcast was produced by Ciaran O'Byrne, research was by Julia Kennedy and it was recorded by Harry Bookless and Cliona Nolan. RTÉ Brainstorm is edited by Jim Carroll and the assistant editor is Aoife Ryan-Christensen. The series is proudly supported by Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland.
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