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Bush, Susanne B. - A Brief Mystery of Time, March 16, 1994

 File — Box: 10
Identifier: 1

Paper description

The author brings together the arts and science of time, how each enlightens the other: time as circular and as one-way, time as a facet of man’s consciousness, the speed up of time in the 20th century, a definition of time possible only in metaphoric terms (Encyclopedia Britannica), Dalai Lama, Einstein and Steven Hawking (relativity and time as a 4th dimension), Superstring Theory, Flatland (1884 science fiction by Edwin A. Abbott), Another Dimension article in Parabola Magazine by Mr. M.C. Huntoon Jr., mystics and glimpses of another reality, paradoxes and mysteries revealed by modern science, performers and their gift of timing (music, movement), time on the clock vs. time in the mind, time and Aborigines (Voices of the First Day by Robert Lawler), time and memory, the battering of old beliefs by breakthroughs in 19th century science and the effect on culture (as expressed by artists Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Wolff, and John Fowles. Other quotes and references: Ahmad b. Isa al-Kharraz, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bede, and Mary Oliver.

Dates

  • Creation: March 16, 1994

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