A New View of Time - Issue 61: Coordinates

This article introduces Nautilus' month-long exploration of the science and art of time. When Lee Smolin's book Time Reborn was re-launched to great fanfare at my home in 2015, it accelerated a discussion he and I had been having for years: What if we gathered together a group of creative, broad-thinking artists and scientists whose perspectives on time were directly reflected in their work? What an extraordinary opportunity that would be--to journey down the path of time hand-in-hand with people whose work has literally changed the way we see and hear things. So that's what we did. Lee's remarkable ability to think about time in a both a fundamental and historical context, and to communicate his ideas to a broad audience, informed our choice of writers and the direction we gave them.