The universe is not a machine, however, but a living process. Time is real, and the future is genuinely open. To suppose otherwise is to mistake the map for the territory, and the clock for the heartbeat it was built to measure.
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The frequencies of the waves that I'm talking about are one wave every 50,000 years. You wouldn't even live to see one wave pass you.
Mark Whittle — TED Radio Hour
The sound waves have turned to stone, so to speak, and become fossilized in the patterns of galaxies.
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The musical instrument, if you like, of the universe is beginning to wake up and it wakes up in sequence, starting with the smallest organ pipes and ending with the largest.
Mark Whittle — TED Radio Hour