Last December I wrote a bit about the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon. It is written from the point of view of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome. He sees things from a very different point of view. I like his views on time. He explains why he needs to have timetables, so that he knows exactly what is going to happen and when it is going to happen. Not knowing scares him. He says:
"Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, ... you can have a map in your head to tell you where you left it.....And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable time is not there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth around the sun ... and it is like west or nor nor-east which won't exist when the earth stops existing and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole.."
I think this is very profound physics. This is dedicted to those who write that "time slows down" when a crumple zone crushes up in a crash!
