Tag: time
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Timeless time: The arrow of time & Why the universe was created when its natural evolution is always towards greater entropy…
In T.H. White’s fantasy novel The Once and Future King, Merlyn the magician suffers from a rare and incurable condition: He experiences time in reverse. He knows what will happen, he laments, but not what has happened. “I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from…
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Living in other places, other times… Old faces long gone…
How would you look if you lived in another decade? A student’s experiment shows us (source)… We are all so different. And yet so amazingly similar. Living in the same world. Different places. Different time. And yet, it feels as if we are all living together… Now. Moments frozen in time. Whole. I am here.…
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Travelling back in time with the mind. The past. Death. The beach…
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or recall our first professional triumph. Vivid memories that call to mind an experience in deep sensory detail can seem to transport us back to another…
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Time moving forward. Time moving backwards…
Most of our lives revolve around time, from the instant our alarm clocks go off to attending afternoon appointments to the moment we call bedtime. Tick tock. But what exactly is time, and why is it always marching forward? A new paper suggests that the arrow of time – a term given to the forward…
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Human clocks. Human time… Life…
Human existence is basically circadian. Most of us wake in the morning, sleep in the evening, and eat in between. Body temperature, metabolism, and hormone levels all fluctuate throughout the day, and it is increasingly clear that disruption of those cycles can lead to metabolic disease. Underlying these circadian rhythms is a molecular clock built…
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