"The clock is a mechanical simulation of time, each beat controlled by a turning of the gears. You can look at a clock and know that everything advances by one tic of the wheel, one slip of the gears. You know what is coming next, because the original clockmaker built it that way. Ah, but time is also an hourglass, yet here you never know which particle of sand will move from the upper half to the lower half at any instant. Were you to number the sands, the order would be slightly different each time. But the end result is always the same--all the sand has moved from the top to the bottom. What order it happens in does not matter."
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:29:15 +0000
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