event
Saturday 14 April 2018 ore 17:30 - 19:00

Film Screening.La curva del tempo

MAXXI Auditorium – admission free subject to availability of places

The mysteries of modern science explained in clear, accessible manner

A marathon of documentary films from the National Geographic library, on the occasion of the exhibition Gravity. Imaging the universe after Einstein.

ore 17:00
La curva del tempo, 60’
Time governs the world and our daily lives. And yet it remains one of the most impenetrable mysteries of modern science. What exactly is time? No one quite knows and the very idea we have of time as a succession of past and present may be a mere illusion.
How could our perception of something so familiar be so erroneous? In search of answer we shall take a thrilling trip through time. Along the way, we shall find a new way of thinking about time as a moment in which past, present and future can coexist. This journey will take us as far as the Big Bang, where scientists believe the most profound secrets of time may be hidden. You will never look at a clock the same way again…