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Letter: Wrestling with our consciousness of time (3)

Published 16 May 2018

From Brian Reffin Smith, Berlin, Germany

Brooks states that we can move as we please in space. Is this true? I think we can move only forwards, which is whatever way we are facing, unless we walk backwards, which would be going forwards but facing the wrong way.

We can't move into negative space any more than we can go backwards in time. I'm not sure this idea helps, but still…

Issue no. 3178 published 19 May 2018

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