[The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead]@TWC D-Link bookThe Concept of Nature CHAPTER VIII 29/41
For example, at some inconceivable distance from us there are events co-present with us now and also co-present with the birth of Queen Victoria.
If A and B are co-present there will be some systems in which A precedes B and some in which B precedes A.Also there can be no velocity quick enough to carry a material particle from A to B or from B to A.These different measure-systems with their divergences of time-reckoning are puzzling, and to some extent affront our common sense.
It is not the usual way in which we think of the Universe.
We think of one necessary time-system and one necessary space. According to the new theory, there are an indefinite number of discordant time-series and an indefinite number of distinct spaces.
Any correlated pair, a time-system and a space-system, will do in which to fit our description of the Universe.
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