1. Metaphysical Time in Jorge Luis Borge's "Garden of Forking P
... of alternate timelines. Since we can only be conscious of the reality that we currently inhabit, I can only present a convincing theory. Modern physics has done this for me. Sir Isaac Newton theorized that each and every event in the universe has its own absolute coordinates of space ... seen as an "arrow" that travels forward in space. To this day, we accept the notion that time is a steady, 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; the...
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