Quotes About Simultaneity

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

Il mio oblio è Hailey. Per un istante. E per sempre. Al di là del tempo. Perché ora siamo fuori dal tempo. Siamo contemporaneamente.

Ours is a brand new world of allatonceness. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village … a simultaneous happening.

Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these, the persistence of substance during alteration of state.

L'uomo è in grado di apprendere poche cose la volta; vediamo soltanto ciò che accade dinanzi a noi, qui e ora; non siamo capaci di figurarci una serie di processi che avvengono simultaneamente, per quanto siano legati o complementari gli uni agli altri. Questo vale anche per fenomeni relativamente semplici. La sorte di un uomo è significativa, quella di cento si può appena afferrare; ma la storia di mille, di un milione, propriamente parlando, non ci dice niente.

Come hai intenzione di espandere il racconto, di preciso?», mi aveva chiesto l'agente, con uno sguardo distante negli occhi perché stava calcolando la mancia. «Mi proietterò in diversi futuri simultaneamente», avrei dovuto rispondere, «con un lieve tremolio della mano; mi imbarcherò in un percorso dall'ironia alla sincerità nella metropoli che sprofonda, come un aspirante Whitman della vulnerabile rete».

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Think, two things on their own and both at once.

But the world of the eye is causing us to live increasingly in a perpetual present, flattened by speed and simultaneity. Visual images have become commodities, as Harvey points out: 'a rush of images from different spaces almost simultaneously, collapsing the world's spaces into a series of images on a television screen […] the image of places and spaces becomes as open to production and ephemeral use as any other [commodity].

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

Some physicists postulate that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously and that we simply experience whatever present slice of the universe we happen to be in at the moment.

We live in several moments, several places, at once.

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

These frozen moments are grouped into nows—into events that happen at the same time—in different ways by observers in different states of motion.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person and seeing them in the present and past, concurrently.

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

At any time in history, gazillions of lives are being lived simultaneously. In Zimbabwe, Thailand, Tasmania, and Borneo, in the poorest hovel and the richest palace, in the sky and on the moon, the lives of ants, plants, gorillas, and people are going on. But we are generally fixated on that infinitesimal thing in the scope of the universe, ourselves.

Cada pieza tiene una razón de ser tal como es. [...] La memoria es frágil y el transcurso de una vida es muy breve y sucede todo tan deprisa, que no alcanzamos a ver la relación entre los acontecimientos, no podemos medir la consecuencia de los actos, creemos en la ficción del tiempo, en el presente, el pasado y el futuro, pero puede ser también que todo ocurre simultáneamente.

D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...]