{"id":1658,"date":"2005-06-20T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2005-06-20T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T17:23:21","slug":"the-asynchronous-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"the asynchronous world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>WiReD<\/i> summarizes the work of Kiwi maverick philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.06\/physics.html\">Peter Lynds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His answers make the mathematics of space and time look strange. If instants don&#8217;t exist, then calculus &#8211; in which equations depend on fixed before-and-after positions in space &#8211; doesn&#8217;t accurately describe reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Er, what?  How does calculus depend on <i>fixed<\/i> positions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WiReD summarizes the work of Kiwi maverick philosopher Peter Lynds: His answers make the mathematics of space and time look strange. If instants don&#8217;t exist, then calculus &#8211; in which equations depend on fixed before-and-after positions in space &#8211; doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}