Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Expressing Deep Physical Laws

"Time is a subject subject and we are far from understanding it fully...the feeling that time flows is deeply ingrained in our experience and thoroughly pervades our thinking and language so much so, that we have lapsed and will continue to lapse, into habitual, colloquial descriptions that refer to a flowing time. But don't confuse language with reality. Human language is far better at capturing experience than at expressing deep physical laws"

-Brian Greene
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