Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)
Physicist Carlo Rovelli writes that the nature of time is so hard to characterize that it’s more accurate to call it an event rather than a structure, “more like a kiss than a stone.” All physicists will tell you the same: that time is a slippery thing appearing every day in the guise of the exacting clock, unable to yield its measures for us, “wai
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In trying to teach Troublemaker physics, Kevin learned it himself. Seldom did Kevin look at the calendar, he was so content. He didn’t wish time away, nor did he long to be someplace else. His life was no longer a race into the future.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Our idea of time, Einstein realized, is abstracted from our experience with rhythmic phenomena: heartbeats, planetary rotations and revolutions, the swinging of pendulums, the ticking of clocks. Time judgments always come down to judgments of what happens at the same time—of simultaneity. “If, for instance, I say, ‘That train arrives here at seven ... See more
The Grand Illusion | Jim Holt
Why, to us, is the past so different from the future? Nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics engaged with these questions and ran into something unexpected and disconcerting—much more so than the relatively marginal fact that time passes at different speeds in different places. The difference between past and future, between cause and effect, be
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