According to fundamental laws of physics, time is just another coordinate -- hash marks along a line with scarcely a preferred direction or flow. Yet the mind perceives time as an irreversible stream, moving from past to future, experienced in the present. Manipulating time may make for good science fiction, but its hardly conceivable to those unfortunates who dont have a Tardis or an H.G. Wells secret recipe. How can science bridge the gaping gulf between these two versions of time? This week, about 50 scientists gather in the Slovakian town of Tatranska Lomnica for a four-day workshop to explore this issue. Addressing psychological, mathematical, physical and "borderline" research, the event is a crossroads of disciplines and paradigms.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52703,00.html
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