I should let you all know that I am - gasp! - double blogging this.
Not as gross as double dipping; maybe a little more like re-gifting,
but only because the original gift was so good I couldn't keep it for
myself. Anyway, there's a slightly different post on this topic over on
symmetrybreaking as well.

"Time, I think, is a little bit like love. It's
accessible to all of us; it is intuitively experienced by all of us in
the same way; yet it retains its mystery at whatever level you weigh in
on it. It is a mysterious force that we all can experience and share." That's how journalist and session moderator John Hockenberry opened "Time Since Einstein," at the World Science Festival in New York a few weeks back.I love this thought. And maybe for a handful of physicists and philosophers, time is also what we love.

Let me quickly note that the World Science Festival was awesome. If you
are in New York next year I highly recommend it. I will try to post some more about it later, and Lee has
also posted in reference to some of the forty sessions they held all
over Manh