Intermezzo

This intermezzo focuses on time and deep time. This includes the amount of time it takes for light to travel from the Moon, Sun, and stars, the Doomsday Clock held by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and the Speaking Clock, which can be accessed in the UK to give you a precise time. It also explores other ways to think about time. The Dreaming or Dreamtime is a cosmology of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders’ philosophies of creation and spirituality of their land. It speaks to the creation of the natural world, where animals, trees, plants, hills, rocks, waterholes, and rivers were created by spiritual beings/ancestors. Next, this intermezzo moves to nested time in research, which is unknowable, where becomings of the past in the present could produce multiple ways of knowing, being, and thinking. Finally, it discusses deep time that charts the formation of Earth over the millennia before human beings evolved.