In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
ALAN LIGHTMANI oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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