1. Metaphysical Time in Jorge Luis Borge's "Garden of Forking P
... , continuous phenomenon. However, physics and mathematics - including Galileo's laws of motion and Newton's laws of mechanics - actually contradict the notion of time being strictly irreversible; they cannot disprove that deviations from the "normal" pattern are impossible The fact that we always see a glass of water falling off a table and emptying its contents on the floor does not mean that the reverse process is excluded from the realm of possibilities. For modern physics, both events are identical ... too long. They chant a spell with the aid of the Will-O"-The-Wisp and take to the ...
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