Cedar Writes

Tag: time

  • Superposition of Time

    Superposition of Time

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    What if time isn’t linear? What if time can be pooled upon itself, offering a way to dive into the now, then, and what-will-be?  What if?  Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity. In quantum theory events unfold in a fixed order while in general relativity temporal order is…

  • Falling down the Rabbit Hole

    Falling down the Rabbit Hole

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    Cedar Sanderson
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  • Glurge and Human Emotion

    Glurge and Human Emotion

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I’m not sure of the true origin of the word glurge. I’m not even sure it’s a real word. I know that I first heard it used to describe the masses of emails that came with the early advent of the internet. Perhaps before the ‘net, it existed – I’m sure some did, since I…

  • The Waist of the Hourglass

    The Waist of the Hourglass

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Life is usually spent buried in the sands. We rarely know which end is up, only the inevitable flow of time inexorably downward through the waist of the hourglass and into the fallen pile of the past. Memories, ideas, plans, dreams, and goals all wind up down there, in the accumulation of a life. But…