In the real world we don’t see Olympic divers popping out of pools feetfirst and landing calmly on springboards. We don’t see shards of stained glass jumping up from the floor and reassembling into a Tiffany lamp. Clips from films run in reverse are amusing for the very reason that what we see projected differs so thoroughly from anything we experience. And yet, according to the math, the events depicted in reverse-run clips are fully in keeping with the laws of physics. Why then is our experience so lopsided? Why do we only ever see events unfold in one temporal orientation and never the
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