"We Are Time": A Li'l Theory Exploring Time and Intelligence
This loose and entirely unscientific theory builds on theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli’s work exploring time and quantum gravity, and plays on the specific passage, “We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons.” - The Order of Time We understand that the temporal structure of our world is relative, and is influenced by variables like mass, gravitational fields, entropy, and our own partialities. But despite those abstract understandings we still feel that time is something . It rushes around us, carries us, is us, but is also ever beyond us. It's something so elusive yet still so near . How could a molecule of hydrogen calculate the river that it comprises? Like those molecules, we are unable to comprehend the river we're a part of. There is no universal constant for time that we know of. Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity states that time is relative, and this has held true as it's be...