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Coordinates

  • By Liz Greene
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more we learn about coordinates, the more we understand their tendency to melt
into each other. Far-flung bits of space can get entangled. At the tiniest
scales, space and time dissolve into a complex foam. In the brain, grid cells
that mark our location in space also help us demarcate time.

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