Episode Transcript: #1631 - Brian Greene
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Mr. Green, how are you, sir? Good, how about you? Good to see you, man. Good seeing you.
What's the latest? You got a book out?
I do, yeah, the paperback of Until the End of Time is out today.
Until the end of time? Yeah.
That's heavy.
It is heavy, but it's a big story, but it's one that we have a nice part within.
A small cameo. The human species has a cameo, so it's a human story too.
Yeah, the human species, what have we been around for, what, 300,000 years? 400,000 years?
It depends how you define the species, but yeah, that's not a bad number.
Some people go back to a million or so if you go back to early human species, but yeah.
And compared to the length of time scales that compose reality from the beginning to the end, that's zero. That's nothing.
When you, being a physicist, being a person that really does have a much greater grasp of the concept of infinity and of time
and of the, just the length that the universe has existed in its current form, how do you just get through your day and not freak out?
Well, it's because my wife says, you know, you got to cook dinner.
So I mean, there are things that you have to actually get done, but it does change your perspective in a significant way
because you recognize that the things that we consider to be oh, so vital and important are just this blink of an eye on the cosmological landscape,
on the cosmological timeline, and it does change the way you approach the world when you pay attention to it.