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