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Our perception of time
The internet changed our perception of time: We're looking at the past on our video screens, and it's just as clear as something in the present, making it feel like an unending present.
Time travel is also a powerful way to imagine what the future might bring. Time travel allows us to explore the consequences of our worst tendencies.
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Time
Time is difficult to explain. When looking for a dictionary explanation, time is described as "the general term for the experience of duration." But what is duration?
We have contradictory ways of speaking about time. We think of time as a quantity. It is something we waste, sp...
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The idea of time travel
The idea of time travel is a very recent idea that starts with H.G. Wells's 1895 novel, The Time Machine. After that, we find the concept in American science fiction, or in modernist literature - each twisting time in new ways, to explore the unpredictability of memory.
Stephen Hawking als...
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Scientists and time travel
Over 50 scientific papers are published a year on the idea of time travel. Even though they will probably never solve the problem of time travel, they still love to talk about wormholes and dark matter.
Einstein, with his theory of relativity, spoke of time as a fourth dimension....
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Time travel is fascinating
One of the reasons we continue to be so fascinated with time travel is that we can go back and undo our mistakes. Then we also have a curiosity about the future.
However, every time travel story is about death. The idea of time travel is ultimately about our desire to defeat deat...
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Scientists and time travel
Over 50 scientific papers are published a year on the idea of time travel. Even though they will probably never solve the problem of time travel, they still love to talk about wormholes and dark matter.
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Smartphones and our perception of time
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Consequently, day-dreaming, thinking, speculating, observing, and people-watching are diminishing.
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