1. Reflections on the nature and direction of time

2. Talk structure Caveat 10 minutes reflections on reality
12 minutes reflections on time
8 minutes concluding reflections

3. Nature of reality We need to reflect on what our reality is
Whether time was born with this universe?
Or is time embedded in the fabric of “reality”?
Or is it emergent from more fundamental stuff?
And in what direction does it move?

4. Big Crunch to Big Bang

5. Background microwave radiation

6. Inflation

7. Big Bounce

8. Multiverse?

9. The String Theory Landscape

10. The Bulk

11. Time – “..a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff”
Scientists insist that the most successful theories in physics prove that time does not exist

12. Time is not absolute

13. The arrow of time

14. Thermodynamic Arrow of Time

15. Is the Arrow of Time an Illusion?

16. Time a succession of frames?

17. The three theories

18. More than one dimensional time

19. Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

20. Are we living in a simulation?