There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world… — Lee Smolin
There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. ...Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. ...If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.
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Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.
There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.
We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.
