So, who is right: Aristotle or Newton? Two of the most acute and profound investigators of nature that the world has ever seen are proposing two opposite ways of thinking about time. Two giants are pulling us in opposite directions.46 Time is only a way of measuring how things change, as Aristotle would have it—or should we be thinking that an absolute time exists that flows by itself, independently of things? The question we should really be asking is this: Which of these two ways of thinking about time helps us to understand the world better? Which of the two conceptual schemes is more
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