"But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?"

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About Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman is an American physicist, novelist, and essayist known for Einstein"s Dreams and writing at the intersection of science and humanities.

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