How language affects our perception of time: a recent study shows bilingual people conceptualise time differently. These are some reflections on the matter with my own experience speaking multiple languages.
Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey: Doctor Who and the Topology of Time
25 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Philosophy
General relativity and gravitational time dilation in the Doctor Who episode ‘World Enough and Time’. Note: This post contains spoilers for the recent episode of Doctor Who, ‘World Enough and Time’. (Although the events of the episode have been trailed in such detail that everything is obvious and predictable, and there are no surprises left in the episode.)