The Collapse of Space

An analog watch shows time on a circular plane. In order to understand the time, your eye has to navigate a circle. Time becomes the circle, scaled to the size of the circle. If you have a digital watch, you can try this out by setting your watch to an analog face. You scan the circle to find the time — for example, 10:15 pm. Or is it 10:16? Hard to say with an analog watch, sometimes. Now…