Well, I thought this book was much more interesting than the Cabinet of Wonders. I feel that this was just more creative i guess. It made people think differently about the passage of time and how the construct of time existed in our reality. We, as a people, know that our time is normal, i guess, it doesn't seem to change and is always as exact as time can get. We can create fictions of the reality of time, though, and that's what they do in this book:
* A world where Time is a Circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself , precisely
* A world where Time is like a flow of water, occasionally displaced by a bit of debris a passing breeze
* A world where Time moves in three dimensions like space
* A world where Time is in 2 forms- Physical time and Body time
* A world where Time flows slowly, the farther one is from the earth
* A world where Time is absolute
* A world where Cause and Effect are erratic. Time and events in the past have no bearing on the events in the present - Unpredictability is the order of the day.
* A world where Time does pass, but little happens from day to day
* A world where Time ends on a certain date
* A world where Time appears or moves at different pace in the same town
* A world where Passage of time brings more order to the world
* A world where Time stands still
* A world where there is no Time .There are only images
* A world where there is no memory and hence no significance of Time
* A world characterized by changed plans, unexpected visions, sudden opportunities
* A world where Time passes more slowly for people in motion
* A world where Time flows backward
* A world where people live only one day
* A word where Time is sense, like taste or sight
* A world where people live forever,
* A world where Time exists but cannot be measured
* A world with out future
* A world where Time is a visible dimension
* A world where Time is discontinuous
* A world where Time is a local phenomenon
* A world where Time is rigid bone like structure
* A world where there are countless copies
* A world which thinks that firmness to past is an illusion
* A world where Time moves differently by age of a person
(http://radhakrishna.typepad.com/rks_musings/2007/03/einsteins_dream.html)
I liked these brief sentences that summed up each of the dates in the book.
All and all the book was really enjoyable and so much more creative and inventive than the first book. More books like this one please.
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Hi John, it is interesting to me that you take these "abnormal" views of time presented in Einstein to be fictional...did the variations not make you question the status quo, question "normal"? Our reality is just that...ours. Who is to say that alternate perceptions do not also constitute a reality? And if they do, they are not fictions. What do you think?
Andrea
Thank you for posting these simple explanations of the time "theories" of each chapter. It provided a helpful, categorical assessment of the book that a few classmates needed as a counter-point (I think).
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