Novel
Le théâtre quantique
- by Alain Connes, Danye Chéreau, and Jacques Dixmier
- (Odile Jacob, May 2013)
In his book L’ordine del tempo, Carlo Rovelli describes the protagonist of this curious, short novel as being able to “see the world directly, beyond time.” Rovelli suggests that the novel is a metapher for time and space emerging from more basic phenomena in the field of quantum gravity, but that is the limit of my understanding. And I don’t know whether the novel involves actual time travel. —Michael Main
J’ai eu cette chance inouïe d’expérimenter une perception globale de mon être, non plus à un moment particular de son existence, mais comme un « tout ». J’ai pu comparer sa finitude dans l’espace contre laquelle personne ne s’insurge et sa finitude dans le temps qui nos pose problème.
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I have had the unheard-of good fortune of experiencing a global vision of my being—not of a particular moment, but of my existence “as a whole.” I was able to compare its finite nature in space, against which no one protests, with its finite nature in time, which is instead the source of so much outrage.
