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Monday, 2005 June 20, 09:23 — sciences

the asynchronous world

WiReD summarizes the work of Kiwi maverick philosopher Peter Lynds:

His answers make the mathematics of space and time look strange. If instants don’t exist, then calculus – in which equations depend on fixed before-and-after positions in space – doesn’t accurately describe reality.

Er, what? How does calculus depend on fixed positions?

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