Newman's Theory of Relativity

An old school friend from the early 1970s put a frightening thought into my head yesterday. We have been reminiscing about some of our old teachers who were veterans of the Second World War, and who included a couple of Majors and a Colonel as I recall, and he pointed out that more time had passed since we knew them than between the end of the war and then. The point being that aging is a bit like the inverse square law in reverse, or something (it’s late, and my brain’s a bit befuddled). In other words, as you get older, the past gets closer. So we all end up looking back fondly on a time before we were even born! Well, I do, anyway…