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It won t be done until these kids and they are kids in $72.00 generations yet to come are all dead and gone their reaction is interesting and over operated on I mean that how come you guys are touch I mean with life makes you want to grab it and make it feel to be somebody else to begin to touch the sculpture put their palms flat against it if you even hug to not cite it understand. It comes for have some the same impulses Terry s are as the feeding of wanting to leave something of yourself behind send something of yourself forward into the future as if to say I was here if only for an instant. And Jad Abumrad in this is radio ad today on our program stories in conversations with people who swim upstream in the river of time even though it s impossible task and speaking of the impossible Here s my Kosik Robert Krulwich And in this hour we will be having an argument with time we will talk to scientists who say that time doesn t exist we will talk to stubborn people who argue that but m