Flame Challenge 2012: It's time to tackle time
Photo credit: Handout | Alan Alda at 11 years old.
Some say it goes by too fast, while others have been known to annoy with "Are we there yet?"
"What is time?" was the winning question submitted by children to Stony Brook University's Flame Challenge, an international contest that prods scientists to explain hard-to-explain stuff in terms an 11-year-old can understand.
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