Illusions and Collisions -- 1

Chapter 5, Sections 1-2 of The Clockless Clock

Part of the The Clockless Clock book project.

In Chapter 2, I introduced a definition of time we will be returning to repeatedly in this book — the Wheeler-Cummings definition of time as “nature’s way of making sure everything doesn’t happen at once.”

An elemental illustration of this definition at work is two objects trying to be in the same place at on…