While young, we are all taught in such a way that time is seen as a straight line from point A to point B. Consider the description of time given by the fictional character Dr. Who, "Time isn't a straight line. It's all... bumpy-wumpy. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible." And we see that even Dr. Who moves dutifully in a straight line along the calendar of days from Sunday to Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with no jumping around, even though he says it's all "bumpy-wumpy." He is correct about one thing, though, anything is possible. Time is strange that way.
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