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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Does time exist?
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Like all current theories of everything, that equation is slpiceautve. But as a thought experiment, if it or a similarly time-starved equation turned out to be true, would that mean that time doesn’t exist, at the most fundamental lveel? Could time just be some sort of illusion generated by the ltaimnoiits of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time extiss as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.
Open Cloze
Like all current theories of everything, that equation is ___________. But as a thought experiment, if it or a similarly time-starved equation turned out to be true, would that mean that time doesn’t exist, at the most fundamental _____? Could time just be some sort of illusion generated by the ___________ of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time ______ as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.
Solution
- speculative
- limitations
- level
- exists
Original Text
Like all current theories of everything, that equation is speculative. But as a thought experiment, if it or a similarly time-starved equation turned out to be true, would that mean that time doesn’t exist, at the most fundamental level? Could time just be some sort of illusion generated by the limitations of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time exists as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.
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