“Modern physicists reject the notion of an action-at-a-distance and recognize only local events. . . . Present events result from present conditions, that is, conditions that are contiguous in space and time. The past has dropped out of existence . . . [but] the human mind is the joiner, fitting together the disparate elements of the world . . . I remember or reconstruct what no longer exists and call it the past. I project or guess at what has not yet happened and call it the future. I connect the past with the present and invent purpose, a kind of nonlocal causality. I do the same with
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