From Chronos to Quantum Time: Can We Stop the Clock?
An interview with Guido Tonelli ties humanity’s long obsession with time to a journey from myth (Chronos) to modern science, explaining how relativity rewrites time for fast-moving particles and gravity, how time’s arrow emerges for macroscopic systems but can blur or reverse in microscopic realms, and how the Heisenberg principle lets physicists measure particle lifetimes (including the Higgs boson). Tonelli argues time remains fundamental but not necessarily ultimate, with future theories potentially reimagining or even abandoning it as a basic concept, a vision explored in his book Time: The Dream of Killing Chronos.
