The Questions · the self · moments
When we are?
A moment is not a tick of the clock. It is an arrangement — and it does not end when time passes.
A moment is the four connections held in one configuration.
It lasts exactly as long as all four lines stay unchanged.
Freeze the world’s side and the moments still turn over.
What this settles
Which takes the clock out of it entirely. A moment ends when something inside the arrangement moves, not when a measured interval elapses.
What it leaves open
What is the grain of a moment?
A moment ends when a line changes — but how fine is the finest change that counts? Raised in this footing and marked open by the foundation itself.
Not this question
Why does time fly, and why does it crawl?
Also in this footing, and a different question. This one says what a moment is. That one says what a run of them feels like.
Also asked as
- Is time still passing, if the where-and-when never changes?
- Why doesn't the day change until you do?
Where this is worked out
Groundhog Day Is a Complete Theory of Time
Why Doesn't the Day Change Until You Do?
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Moments
When a moment ends and what makes the next one — why an hour vanishes and five minutes will not, and how fine a change has to be before it counts. 2 of the 3 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Why does time fly, and why does it crawl?walked
- What is the grain of a moment?not explored yet