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Indeed, while scientists have harnessed the power of the atom, cracked the genetic code and probed the very edges of the universe, they still don't understand time much better than St. Augustine did. Yet now, as the last few days of the second millennium tick rapidly away (though diehard...
Quantum physics demolishes the conventional concept of time in its own peculiar ways. Measured at short enough durations, space-time loses its apparently smooth, continuous structure, devolving into what Princeton physicist John Wheeler calls "quantum foam." The orderly flow of events may really be as much an illusion as the...
If so, it's an illusion that has appeared in very different guises to different groups. Says Greenwich observatory director Kristen Lippencott, who put together the British exhibition: "Time is not the thing on our wrists. Time is a cultural object." For many outside the Western European tradition, for instance...
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is on target in saying that U.S. arms-control leadership is too important to risk in partisan fights [VIEWPOINT, Nov. 22]. However, in suggesting that the proposed National Missile Defense system could possibly deal with "potential threats from sources that are not rational," she is...
Regular patrons of The Nutcracker will discover few changes since last year. Company officials are billing this 34th production as an "enhanced performance," with ten foot Nutcracker sentries greeting the audience as they enter the theater, costumed characters mingling with the audience, free memento buttons and more flameproof white confetti...