Our ability to remember the past but not the future can be understood as a buildup of correlations between interacting particles. When you read a message on a piece of paper, your brain becomes correlated with it through the photons that reach your eyes. Only from that moment on will you be capable of remembering what the message says.
Natalie Wolchover, “New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time,” Quanta Magazine
When we examine the problem closely, we find that “time” is not the unitary phenomenon we may have supposed it to be. This can be illustrated with some simple experiments: for example, when a stream of images is shown over and over in succession, an oddball image thrown into the series appears to last for a longer period, although presented for the same physical duration.
David Eagleman, “Brain Time” in What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science
snow globe
a theory
about loneliness
before love she sets the thermostat a little lower
afternoon drowsiness
one more world
before it snows
