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[timelets]

Is time irreversible? Would that it were! On the contrary, it is reversible-so reversible that it is possible not to have made any progress since the time of the Romans. Now if things stagnate, we can hardly make a distinction between 1871 and 1875, except on the calendar, which does not amount to very much.

--- Bruno Latour. TPoF, 1993.

upd. Compare this to Lawvere's point about being vs becoming. Specifically, space serves as аn arena for becoming, which requires at least two points to be noticeable. Stagnation implies maintaining a given state in a space of states, i.e. just one point, despite changes in calendar time, which is a different space. We can express stagnation vs change as the difference in intensive quantity, e.g. states per an interval of time. Движуха!