“The single quantity ‘time’ melts into a spiderweb of times. We do not describe how the world evolves in time: we describe how…
“The single quantity ‘time’ melts into a spiderweb of times. We do not describe how the world evolves in time: we describe how things evolve in local time, and how local times evolve relative to each other. The world is not like a platoon advancing at the pace of a single commander. It’s a network of events affecting each other.”— Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time