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A New Dawn (opens the original)
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Where will you be for the e v e n t ? Can you conceive of an event that exists entirely on its own, not already placed in space and time, but actually constituting it? We have learned that the observations we make in modern science do not reveal already existing facts about an already existing spacetime. They rather establish a new spacetime each time. Not an entirely new one, but one that is discontinuous, a glitch or a jump from the previous one. The event is the last point of the previous wor
Contemporary Dynamics (opens the original)
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Approaching the end of the nineteenth century, the takeover was almost complete. The entire universe was ruled by a fixed set of laws which we had almost totally discovered and formalised. At least in principle, Laplace’s Demon would be able to determine the movements and trajectories of every particle, as long as the initial conditions (position and velocity) were known. The profound uniformity of the laws of nature were carried by the assumption of absolute space and time. There was one infini
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