Pathways to emerge time in Physics: examples from liquid state Physics

Aurélien Perera, Ph.D.
Laboratoire de physique théorique de la matière condensée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

While we are now able to describe the origin of the Universe in minute details, the origins of fundamental particles, space and time are still mysterious. While we fully understand that Life is emerged from an inert matter which has no secrets for us, the exact mechanism of this emergence is still mysterious to us. Physicist are able to build models which can emerge the electron and the photon, although we have no way to check if these scenarios are correct. In this talk, I will show how recent developments in the nature of the order in Liquids, naturally lead to emerge some aspects of space and time in an unexpected way, opening interesting heuristic connections between material physics, physics and philosophy.