The Timelessness of Humanity
The universe, two stories from the 1890s, and a common thread
“The past is always tense, and the future perfect.” — Zadie Smith, 2000
This is going to sound weird, but time travel has been on my mind this week.
With the advent of the solar eclipse (I daresay you heard that North America had an eclipse? If not, then I don’t know that you have the wherewithal to be reading this newsletter.), it made me consider the time-space continuum.
What’s the connection to history? And why does it matter for leaders? Stay with me.
You see, during a total solar eclipse in 1919, astronomer and physicist Arthur Eddington observed from Príncipe Island that gravity bent the path of light. And it aligned with what Albert Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity, which linked tim…
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