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The very human activity of measuring time spans the hundred or so millennia we've been around, years in caves and megaliths, months and weeks in celestial bodies and scripture, hours and minutes in longitude and quartz crystals. Even with the advent of atomic time, down to the picosecond, there is still the mystery of whether our position in the universe or machines based on this position is our true measure of time.
— May 26, 2017 10:30PM
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Kyle
is on page 296 of 352
Dispensing theories of the Big Bang and the eventual extinguishing of light and life in the universe (caused by dark energy, probably created as a residue of consciousness that humans trail through spacetime like slugs), Falk goes beyond physics to the hard problem of reality. Interesting that he chooses Caesar's assassination as a test of time's flow, as if his later book on Shakespeare's science shows the meta-now.
— Jun 17, 2017 03:07PM
Kyle
is on page 224 of 352
Albert's time (or Einsteinian spacetime) is a good way to start the latter half of this book, noting how relativity and quantum mechanics changed everything we seemed to know about how the universe works. Atoms and uncertainty. Yet by the ninth hour (aka chapter), Falk finds fault with biblical scholars, geologists and evolutionists who cannot figure out the universe's age yet readily trusts physicists' 13.7 billion.
— Jun 11, 2017 10:10PM
Kyle
is on page 151 of 352
Opening up the door to the many ways of perceiving time that contradict the Western C&CT (clock & calendar time) is a good way to start going beyond what is known from historical academic knowledge. I will have to find out more about Australian Indigenous dreamtime! Once through that door the mechanics of memory come under scrutiny, perhaps the only evidence that philosophers and relationists would accept about time.
— Jun 02, 2017 11:58PM
