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The Order of Time
- "“How do you pass the time?” suggests the basic model of existence, in which living a life is seen on the one hand as traversing an unspecified span of time—marked out in years—and on the other, as moving through the natural cycle of hours, from dawn to dusk. Time, then, is understood to be a medium one negotiates. And in this respect: how do I p... See more
Lapham's Quarterly • Strange Days | Sven Birkerts
time is a sense. In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.
Alan Lightman • Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)
One witty but unserious answer often has been misattributed to Einstein, though it originates from the science-fiction writer Ray Cummings: “Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” Another pithy response, which at first may sound no more serious, is that “time is what clocks measure.” Yet that, I believe, is the germ of the correc
... See moreFrank Wilczek • Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
"Long ago, before the Great Clock, time was measured by changes in heavenly bodies: the slow sweep of stars across the night sky, the arc of the sun and variation in light, the waxing and waning of the moon, tides, seasons. Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of w... See more