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XI.6 November + December 2004
Page: 16
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It’s about time


Authors:
Aaron Marcus

Einstein is famous for, among other things, making time a dimension like spatial dimensions and for introducing the relativity of time [29]. Recent studies of string theory and "theories of everything" [9] even make time merely one of ten dimensions. Piaget wrote The Child's Conception of Time, in which he described our human acquisition of a sense of time passing, history, and future orientation [25]. Some say that one of our distinctly human traits is to have a sense of not only the past but the future as well. Modern technology, that is, our tools and media of communication,…




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