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Radio 4 physicist Jim Al-Khalili on a £2m mission to reveal secrets of time
For a subatomic particle, there is no past and no future. Time exists for electrons and quarks but their time has no direction.For things made of those particles, however — things like, say, humans, who get old, experience reality one second at a time and think wistfully about a youth they can never
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