- Concepts of time travel started in 1914
- 1876 was the first record of a centennial celebration
- No one pondered the future or the past until the 20th century
- New (remote) lands filled the roles of time travel in fiction
- We should not think about time as the same as space
- We cannot freely move through time like we can through space
- “What the balloon does for space, the time machine does for time”
- Prior to clocks, time was relative based on the setting
- Newton has to define time so acceleration could happen
- “If the speed of light is fixed then time cannot be.”
- The Olympics replace starting pistols with speakers to ensure everyone can hear the signal at the same time
- “Souls cannot move that fast so one needs to wait”
- We are always looking into the past
- All time was local until the train
- Is the arrow of time because of entropy?
- “You cannot stir things apart”
- In many Latinx cultures, you look forward to the past and back for the future
- (This makes a lot of sense because you observe the past, in front of you, and cannot see the future coming behind you)
- Eternity is “outside of time”
- Nostalgia originally meant “homesick”, not wanting a different time
- In 1955, we redefined “a second” from a fraction of a day to an independent time frame
- A nano second is about the length light travels a foot
- Mental Time Travel let’s us project forward and back over time
- “Now” is generally 2-3 seconds lumped together by the brain
- We need at least 1/10th a second to accurately differentiate the order of two events
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