From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihuxv!lew Newsgroups: net.misc Title: time slices Article-I.D.: ihuxv.224 Posted: Fri Aug 13 11:04:08 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 07:10:15 1982 Special Relativity shows us that time-like slices ( a set of simultaneous events ) are not invariant. It is easy to miss the profundity of this until one realizes that "the present moment" is such a slice. Our entire awareness is restricted to "the present moment" and it is hard to disabuse oneself of the notion that it is an absolute. I thought that "Slaughterhouse Five" ( especially the movie ) did an excellent job of conveying the slipperiness of "the present." Lew Mammel, Jr. - BTL Indian Hill