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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Order of Days

The Order of Days is a book about the history of time. In it, scientists write down years that go into the octilians. They're taking the bachtun period and they want to create basically 20 orders above that. That's what I mean by saying it's a numeral logical construct of time. It's just kind of fun to write down big numbers.

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