In addition to the usual Factorio, Soldier’s Life, and Roger, I talked about two Greek concepts of time – chronos and kairos – and the video I saw last night from Jessica McCabe of How to ADHD fame.
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I first heard of Kronos/Kairos from Madeleine L’Engle – her Murray/O’Keefe stories are Kairos, her Austin Family stories are Kronos. Of course there’s crossover – Zachary Grey, Canon Tallis, etc. But in general, the Austin Family stories are more grounded in the day to day Kronos world, while the Murray/O’Keefe stories are set far more loosely, with a more nebulous acknowledgement of time.
Another thought that came to mind was E. E. “Doc” Smith, and his “laws of psionics” that popped up in some of his lesser known works – Galaxy Primes, Subspace Explorers/Encounters, etc. One of those laws, promulgated I believe by the Old Wise Scientist in the Subspace stories, was “Time is measured by the number of subjective learning events one experiences”. And perhaps it’s something of an inverse relationship – the more profound the learning experience, the more it locks you into a particular Now, no matter what the clock on the wall shows?
And of course, there’s the classic Albert Einstein quote: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
More people need to read Madeleine L’Engle, I think.