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Lee Smolin [5]
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Theoretical physicist at Penn State; author of The Life Of The Cosmos.

"Fundamentally, is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of moments?"

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