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> This is something I've never understood about including time as just another dimension. There's actually a trilogy by Greg Egan based on the premise that tim
by justinpombrio 9y ago
> This is something I've never understood about including time as just another dimension.
There's actually a trilogy by Greg Egan based on the premise that time is just like a spacial dimension (i.e., where the Minkowski metric is instead xx+yy+zz+tt). It radically changes physics and chemistry, and the books are set in this different universe.
http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html