Time as Medium

I enjoyed this reading. I am really interested in the concept of time and space--the discussion about Einstein's theory of relativity brought to mind Alan Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams. In this book, Lightman describes a series of dreams that Einstein could have had while coming up with this theory. Each chapter describes a different world/city where time and space relate to each other differently (like in one world, everything is on wheels--buildings and all--so that they are constantly moving; in another world, time in non-linear; etc.). From this reading, I was really interested in Graham's Present Continuous Past(s). I like the idea of the present instant, and trying to capture that along with the past. As William James posed, "Where is it, this present." It is constantly turning into the past. Time is an all-encompassing factor on our lives that consumes our thoughts. It is interesting to consider it as an illusion; something in existence only because we created it.