On 9/22/11 8:28 PM September 22, 2011, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I somehow have a sense of time as a kind of tapestry hanging on a wall; we move past; what is behind us at right in front of us is visible to us, but what is ahead is hidden. Suppose we find a way of approaching the tapestry from the other side, or a way of "unhiding" the hidden....with time travel, one could go to other parts of the tapestry....if I presuppose the outcomes (results) of certain actions to be fixed (no open-ended "if this, then that") events, and time, could be (theoretically) approached from the "other side" too.
I am quite sure that this view of time, along with the other views of time that we have good metaphors for, is quite wrong. I have no clue what time is, or whether it has any sort of objective existence at all but is instead an artifact of some other, deeper structure. I'm fairly certain that we haven't even started asking the right questions about time.
A question that occurred to me today is: how does time relate to space? Is it a sort of weird uncle that space keeps locked in the attic or is it some other species entirely?
This sort of thinking also make me want to re-read Ursula Leguin's The Dispossessed.
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