Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't know. It's a taxi...
...fabric of our existence, in fact, that it's hard even to conceive of it as an independent entity--and when we try, the result is less than enlightening. Pondering the mystery of what time really is, St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "If no one asks me, I know; but if any person should require me to tell him, I cannot...
This elasticizing of space-time means, for example, that observers might disagree over which of two events happened first--and both could be right. Even more bizarrely, physicists including Stephen Hawking have seriously discussed the possibility that relativity might make it feasible (though not with any technology we know of today) to send objects backward in time...
...changed a thing," it reads. "All you can choose to do is go on or not." Frank Peterson says he now gives his biology students more in-class assignments so he can work with them one on one, "slowing down the pace" and taking "the time to get to know these sophomores as people...
...know how right Bezos is, but as the driving force behind the striking growth in Internet commerce over the past 12 months, he has helped guarantee that the world of buying and selling will never be the same...