Subjective Time

From IT SPb Academy

"For me, some of the most intersting passages about the connections between the problem of time, as involved in the memory, and the physical or even mathematical meaning of it, whether it is classical or relativistic, were written, not by a physicist or a neurologist, or a proffesional psychologist, but by Vladimir Nabokov in his book Ada. Some utterances by Einstein himself, as quoted in his biografies, show the great physicist's wonder at what living in time means, since we experience only the present. But, in reality, we consist of permanent and immutable world lines in four dimensions" Ulam, "Adventures of a mathematician", p.184