The scale in all of those is smooth and consistent – it’s a sort of hollowed-out, blown-up version of the good old anthropocentric scaling, only now we are in a privileged godlike position of omnipresence outside the universe, where every scale is just a toggle away. But it isn’t like that at all. That kind of thing confuses time with the measurement of time, and further it confuses the measurement of time with just a few kinds of measurement – the kinds that are convenient for humans. It’s not just true that there is a time for everything, as it says in Ecclesiastes (‘a time to reap and a
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