The Mystery of Time, with Jim Al-Khalili

What is time, really? Does it have a beginning? Could it ever run backwards? And is it even real?

Join one of the world's most celebrated physicists and science communicators, Jim Al-Khalili, for an unmissable live show that will stretch your mind and transform the way you experience every ticking second of your life.

Drawing on his groundbreaking new book On Time, Jim takes audiences on a thrilling journey through the deepest mysteries of the universe — from the strange quantum world where the rules of time seem to dissolve, to the vast fabric of space-time bent and warped by gravity, to the thermodynamic arrow that insists time can only flow one way. Why can we remember the past but not the future? Why does the universe seem to move relentlessly forward? And what do the very edges of physics tell us about where time comes from?

Jim unpacks ideas that have baffled philosophers and scientists for millennia — and delivers some genuinely surprising answers. Far from being an illusion conjured by our minds, he argues that time is one of the most fundamental features of reality itself, written into the structure of the universe from its very first moment.

Join Jim live in venues across the UK, hear the arguments and ask your questions in the audience Q&A.

More dates to be announced soon.

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