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- 1A Leaf Suspended: When Time Stopped●When Time Stopped (a.k.a. The Arbitrary Nature of Time) * In physics, the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model
A short reflection on the nature of time in physics is circulating online, framed around an image of a leaf seemingly suspended in place. The piece explains that in physics the space-time continuum is a mathematical model fusing three dimensions of space with one of time into a single four-dimensional continuum, and uses the frozen leaf to illustrate how arbitrary our sense of time can be.