Gregory Benford - What's Real About Time?

Time seems natural and absolute: the flow of moments, one following another, from the unknown past to the knife's edge present to the unknowable future. But perhaps this is not so. Einstein shocked the world by showing that time was relative. What's the latest about time?

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Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.

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