A Question of Time Quotes

“Bound by the speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can never catch up. Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“Just as life emerges out of lifeless molecules that organize themselves,”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“the boundaries of time are also the boundaries of reason and empirical observation.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“In one proposal three years ago Brett McInnes of the National University of Singapore drew on ideas from the leading candidate for a quantum theory of gravity—string theory.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“for many in theoretical physics have come to believe that time fundamentally does not even exist.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“what events are happening at the same time depends on how fast you are going.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

“Solidity is a collective, or emergent, property of the particles. Time, too, could be an emergent property of whatever the basic ingredients of the world are.”
― Scientific American, A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox