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growthpathlabs.comThrough video calls, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the planet, thereby collapsing distance. Through technologies such as video recording, we now document more comprehensive records of the past / our past selves, thereby collapsing time. This makes how we view the past different from those before photography and v... See more
Story Waters • You are a God dreaming of time and space.
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The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
As the Earth orbits the Sun in an ellipse, it moves more quickly at perihelion (closest-to-the-Sun) and more slowly at aphelion (farthest-from-the-Sun), which leads to changes in the time at which the Sun rises and sets, as well as the duration of the actual day, over the course of a year. The obliquity of Earth’s orbit also affects the equation of time. These patterns repeat annually and are latitude-specific, but generally lead to a “figure 8” pattern for Earth’s analemma: the shape our Sun traces throughout the sky at the same time every day throughout the year.
Both Wheeler and Einstein believed that time was a concept of the conscious (observing) mind and not an external phenomenon.