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Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.
The Order of Time (2018)
The World is Made of Events, not Things.
The Order of Time (2018)
The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion, an illegitimate extrapolation of our own experience
The Order of Time (2018)
The difference between past and future... cause and effect... memory and hope... regret and intention... in the elementary laws that describe the mechanisms of the world, there is no such difference.
The Order of Time (2018)
In the elementary equations of the world, the arrow of time appears only where there is heat. The link between time and heat is... fundamental: every time a difference is manifested between the past and the future, heat is involved.
The Order of Time (2018)
But it isn’t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.
The Order of Time (2018)