A uranium nucleus may remain unchanged for billions of years and then without any stimulus at all, suddenly violently disintegrate.
—David Deuetsch "The Fabric of Reality"
persistence
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by just a little. That doesn't mean anything. For we convinced physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
—Albert Einstein from a letter to the widow of Michele Besso
Time Capsules | 29
I suggest that the brain in any instant always contains, as it were, several stills of a movie. They correspond to different positions of objects we think we see moving. The idea is that it is this collection of 'stills', all present in any one instant, that stands in psychophysical parallel with the motion we actually see.
—Julian Barbour "The End of Time"
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