From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Chapter 11, “Quantum Time” — Read as a PDF Sweet is by convention, bitter by convention, hot by convention, cold by convention, color by convention; in truth there are but atoms and the void. — Democritus[i] Many people who have sat through introductory physics courses in high school or college might disagree with the claim, “Newtonian mechanics makes intuitive sense to us.” They may remember the subject as a bewildering...