Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science.

By Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Host and Creator of Closer To Truth

When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth. Since then, physicists have been placing new forces into ever-grander theories. But perhaps the ultimate challenge is achieving a monumental synthesis of the two remaining theories—relativity and the quantum theory.

Why is there an “arrow of time” in that time seems to flow in one direction, always forward? In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Julian Barbour offers a radical answer: it doesn’t.