Physicist Alan Lightman on Time

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen and novelist and Alan Lightman talk about how art plays with time.Lightman is a novelist and physicist. He is an adjunct Professor of Humanities at MIT and the author of several books includingEinstein’s Dreamsand, most recently,The Diagnosis.

(Originally aired: May 16, 2002)

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