Social Animal
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/17/110117fa_fact_brooks?currentPage=all
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Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".