This article has given me pause and reflection time to reconnect with my notions of the present moment in new perspectives. I’m staring it and will re-Readup it again and see newness that was unseen before. Great timing for this one.
“In spacetime, the past is whatever is inside our past light-cone,” Rovelli said, gesturing with his hands the shape of an upside down cone. “So it’s whatever can affect us. The future is this opposite thing,” he went on, now gesturing an upright cone. “So in between the past and the future, there isn’t just a single line—there’s a huge amount of time.”
Love reads that Tilt Us. This quickie does.
The cone metaphor is mind blowing.
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This article has given me pause and reflection time to reconnect with my notions of the present moment in new perspectives. I’m staring it and will re-Readup it again and see newness that was unseen before. Great timing for this one.
“In spacetime, the past is whatever is inside our past light-cone,” Rovelli said, gesturing with his hands the shape of an upside down cone. “So it’s whatever can affect us. The future is this opposite thing,” he went on, now gesturing an upright cone. “So in between the past and the future, there isn’t just a single line—there’s a huge amount of time.”