TIME

String Field Physicist Professor Michio Kaku will try and answer the question that many scientists, philosophers and free thinkers have asked and can never seem to answer: "What is time?" "Does time have substance?" "Does time have structure or dynamics" "Is time quantised?". Time is said to be the law which keeps all other forces in the universe from interacting all at once, However at the core of physics forces push, they do not pull, so what is pushing time?The Big Bang? And if so, what pushed the force that caused the Big Bang? It is a conundrum.
Michio instead turns to the very fundamentals of what time is, what our sense of time is, what timing mechanisms exist in nature and how the universe operates, and how it needs to operate, in such a clockwork.

The most powerful effect of time on our lives is the way it limits us. Our knowledge of death is so embedded in our lives and spirituality that, were immortality possible, would we lose the sense that makes us human?

The movie opens when 78-year-old Isak Borg, played by Victor Sjöström, is in bed at home. He dreams about being on a city street with no other people present. A clock hanging above the street has no hands. Isak checks his pocket watch; it too has no hands. A figure appears with its back turned. Isak walks up to the figure and touches it. It has no face. The figure collapses onto the pavement. Blood streams out of the figure. Next a hearse drawn by a team of horses turns a corner and enters the street on which the dream-Isak is standing. It approaches Isak and then passes him but its rear wheel gets caught on a lamppost. Although no one is driving the hearse, the horses continue forward. The left rear wheel breaks off at the lamppost. The horses and hearse drive away but the coffin comes loose, and slides out and onto the street. A hand appears on the outside of the coffin. Isak looks at the hand. His hand and the hand outstretched from the coffin touch, with the hand coming out of the coffin holding Isak. The body in the coffin is also Isak. He awakes.

The viewer senses the loneliness in Isak. And that Isak's time is running out.

We've always structured our lives based on an unchanging past and a predictable and ordered future. But atomic and cosmic discoveries have changed all that. What is time itself? And will it ever end?