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[email protected] Time’s Sketchy Rules Nadirah Baarh Pamela Laskin 11/28/2016
[email protected] Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts of the City College of the City University of New York. Baarh 1 Time’s Sketchy Rules Prologue What is time anyway? Where does it begin and when does it end? Is it linear and bendy like those plastic rulers we used to use in math class? Does it stop sometimes, like those old clocks that tick tick tick all day long, but one day, in a sudden twist of fate, you look at it and it’s not moving? And you freak because you don’t know what time it is. All of a sudden, you’re living in this strange limbo moment where time isn’t being measured, and well, that just won’t do. We need measurement. We need time. In the smaller than life, not even big enough to be microscopic, world of quantum physics measurement is quantified. If you touch something, notice it, try to measure it, you instantly change it. Everything is in a state of superposition—where two opposite things, two completely opposite things, somehow manage to be equally true at the same time.