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Untimely Reflections #18 - Quinn Williams - The Time-Atom Fragment

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Whole World at a Stroke

Nietzsche: All laws of space are therefore thought as timeless. That means they must be simultaneous and immediate. Since at least the time of the Greeks, the philosophers have attempted to explain the world in its entirety. If we could imagine speeding up our pulse rate to like 10,000 times what it is now, we're slowing it down, cutting it by into 110,000. Um, you would perceive an entirely different world, like if you were in an incredibly slow reality where, you know, flowers and mushrooms that's brought up overnight would seem like to be as immortal as anything. Right? But then there is no movement, which is interesting. So it's like, uh

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