Shall we summarize? Time is a very important concept in physics. Yet time is pretty much useless in math and git for that matter.
GIT == Git Ignores Time
Linus TorvaldsOn Wed, 27 Sep 2006, apodtele wrote:
> > Shall we summarize? Time is a very important concept in physics.
Actually, even in physics (or very _much_ in physics), time doesn't follow the nice procession that Matthew is kind of asking for.
In physics, particles can go backwards in time or forwards in time (the _likelihood_ that a photon moves at exactly the speed of light is higher, but on a quantum scale, strange things happen).
And everybody should by now know what relativity says: time does not impose an "ordering" of events outside of the so-called "cone of light". There is only an ordering imposed by _causality_, not by time.
That, btw, is very similar to git. The only _true_ ordering in git is causality. Time itself tends to have certain properties that makes it _look_ like it is about causality, but in real life there is just a strong correlation.
Nature is sometimes stranger than our everyday experiences would have us believe. And "time" is a hell of a lot more complicated than just a global one-dimensional entity, steadily ticking away.
Linus