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2naSalit

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4. What if...

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 26, 2024, 07:32 AM

Feb 2024

We have it wrong about time/distance and it's all always existed in unison? Maybe distance is just distance and the further away something is from us is just far away and not any older or newer. Time is a construction we devised to relate to how we view life here... perhaps it doesn't apply anywhere else.

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