What does it mean for time to be real? Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play? Some physicists and philosophers would say no, time is an illusion; time is not real. How can that be? Is our sense of time all wrong?

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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and writer at Stanford University. 

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