{"id":116432,"date":"2020-11-29T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-arrow-of-cosmic-time-and-space-remains-vital-to-our-sanity"},"modified":"2020-11-29T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:22:19","slug":"the-arrow-of-cosmic-time-and-space-remains-vital-to-our-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-arrow-of-cosmic-time-and-space-remains-vital-to-our-sanity","title":{"rendered":"The Arrow Of Cosmic Time And Space Remains Vital To Our Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-arrow-of-cosmic-time-and-space-remains-vital-to-our-sanity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To those who saw it in its very first theatrical run, the opening crawl at the very top of the original 1977 \u201cStar Wars\u201d film automatically dispelled any notions about cosmic civilizations and a linear march of time. We all got the reference to a \u201cgalaxy far, far away\u201d at the outset, but \u201ca long time ago\u201d was all at once brilliant and mind-blowing.<\/p>\n<p>Inherent in that notion is the idea that civilizations outside our own solar system have been living and dying since time immemorial. And the civilizations depicted in this bit of space cinema also appear to have become masters of their own galactic quadrants, if not their whole galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here on parochial Earth, we are wedded to the linear march of time in a way that is not likely to change until the very far future. Here, we are guided by our own history of technological advancement in a way that extraterrestrial civilizations may find antiquated. They may already be inured to the fact that they are mere technological babes in the woods when compared to much more advanced civilizations they, themselves, may have encountered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those who saw it in its very first theatrical run, the opening crawl at the very top of the original 1977 \u201cStar Wars\u201d film automatically dispelled any notions about cosmic civilizations and a linear march of time. We all got the reference to a \u201cgalaxy far, far away\u201d at the outset, but \u201ca long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}