Quotes About Time

Michele has left this strange world a little before me. This means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction made between past, present and future is nothing more than a persistent, stubborn illusion.

It's suffering because we must lose what we have and are attached to. Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.

Because it is nothing but a fleeting structure of the world, an ephemeral fluctuation in the happening of the world, that which is capable of giving rise to what we are: beings made of time. That to which we owe our being, giving us the precious gift of our very existence, allowing us to create the fleeting illusion of permanence that is the origin of all our suffering.

The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things

The passing of time is intrinsic to the world; it is born of the world itself, out of the relations between quantum events that are the world, and that themselves generate their own time.

The present is a localized rather than a global phenomenon.

At the most fundamental level that we currently know of, therefore, there is little that resembles time as we experience it.

But it is not only space that curves: time does too. Einstein predicts that time on Earth passes more quickly at higher altitude, and more slowly at lower altitude.

We see the sky turning around us every day, but we are the ones who are turning. Is the daily spectacle of a revolving universe "illusory"? No, it is real, but it doesn't involve the cosmos alone. It involves our relation with the sun and the stars. We understand it by asking ourselves how we move. Cosmic movement emerges from the relation between the cosmos and ourselves.

In our everyday life we move at low speeds in relation to the speed of light and so we do not perceive the discrepancies between the different proper times of different clocks, and the differences in speed at which time passes at different distances from a mass are too small for us to distinguish. In the end, therefore, instead of many possible times, we can speak only of a single time: the time of our experience—uniform, universal, and ordered.

Kütle çekim alan? uzayda yay?lm?? de?ildi, çekim alan? uzay?n ta kendisiydi.

The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder.

Ama bükülen yaln?zca uzay de?ildir; zaman da bükülür. Einstein zaman?n yüksekteki bir konumda, dünyaya yak?n, daha alçak bir durumdan daha h?zl? akt???n? öngörür.

This is what Boltzmann understood. The difference between past and future does not lie in the elementary laws of motion; it does not reside in the deep grammar of nature. It is the natural disordering that leads to gradually less particular, less special situations.

There is our past: all the events that happened before what we can witness now. There is our future: the events that will happen after the moment from which we can see the here and now. Between this past and this future there is an interval that is neither past nor future and still has a duration: fifteen minutes on Mars; eight years on Proxima b; millions of years in the Andromeda galaxy. It is the expanded present.28 It is perhaps the greatest and strangest of Einstein's discoveries.

A dolgok csak egymáshoz képest változnak. A világ alapszerkezetében nincs id?. Az id? múlásának érzete csupán közelítés, és csak a mi makroszkopikus mérettartományunkban érvényes.

The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder. So,

Carlo Rovelli

Evrenlerin patlad???, uzay?n ç?k??? olmayan delikler içine çöktü?ü, zaman?n bir gezegene inildikçe yava?lad???, y?ld?zlararas? uzay?n uçsuz bucaks?z enginli?inin deniz yüzeyi gibi dalgaland??? renkli ve ?a??rt?c? bir dünya...

But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the "now.

Times are legion: a different one for every point in space. There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them. The time indicated by a particular clock measuring a particular phenomenon is called 'proper time' in physics. Every clock has its proper time. Every phenomenon that occurs has its proper time, its own rhythm.

This is the disconcerting conclusion that emerges from Boltzmann's work: the difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world. It's a conclusion that leaves us flabbergasted: Is it really possible that a perception so vivid, basic, existential—my perception of the passage of time—depends on the fact that I cannot apprehend the world in all of its minute detail?

Time has lost another of its crucial components: the intrinsic difference between past and future. Boltzmann understood that there is nothing intrinsic about the flowing of time. That it is only the blurred reflection of a mysterious improbability of the universe at a point in the past. The source of Rilke's "eternal current" is nothing other than this.

The passage of time is internal to the world, is born in the world itself in the relationship between quantum events that comprise the world and are themselves the source of time. The