Monday, August 17, 2009

Geometric Time

"Time has dimensional and geometric properties in the same way that space does. Some of these aspects can be described as "past, present, future" and they can be thought of in same way that one thinks of "up, here, down". These conditions exist simultaneously. Just as higher dimensions exist around us without our being able to experience or interact with them purposefully, the same applies to different states or dimensions of time. So moving through time isn't a linear problem (as it does not exist in a linear form), but is rather a geometric problem."
-From the Lecture "Moving Through Time Moving Through Space", University of Kansas, 1969 - Perry Stevenson

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