“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be
a mere sequence….”
— T. S. Eliot, Harvard ’10
Quoted in Log24 on
November 11, 2003
A search at the New York Times
for the subject of the previous entry
reveals another aspect of that date:
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
“…trying to imagine how the universe made its ‘quantum leap from eternity into time,’ as the physicist Dr. Sidney Coleman of Harvard once put it. Some physicists speculate that on the other side of the looking glass of Time Zero is another…”
– By DENNIS OVERBYE
– Technology – 819 words
Related material:
Peter Woit in his weblog
on Nov. 12, 2007:
Or to T.S. Eliot,
Annie Dillard, and
William Shakespeare?
For more on the date
11/11, see
Plato, Pegasus, and
the Evening Star.