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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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What's the Difference Between the Narrative and the Geometric?

Einstein said the present moment means nothing in physics. His four-dimensional space-time continuum treated time as though we're merely another dimension like the other three. The whole universe is to be viewed by physicists as existing now, a word that has no meaning in Einstein's view. We distinguish between the past and the future by saying that we have memories of the past, and we only anticipate the future.

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