Khadgar was not thrown as much by Medivh's apparent change of topic. "Time?"
"We use it, trust it, measure by it, but what is it?" Medivh was smiling over the top of his cup.
"Time is a regular progression of instants. Like sands through an hourglass," said Khadgar.
"Excelent analogy," said Medivh. "One i was going to use myself, and then compare the hourglass with the mechanical clock. You see the difference between the two?"
Khadgar shook his head slowly as Medivh sipped on his wine.
Eventually, the mage spoke, "No, you're not daft, boy. It's a hard concept to wrap your brain around. The clock is a mechanical simulation of time, each beat controlled by a turning of the gears. You can look at a clock and know that everything advances by one tic of the wheel, one slip of the gears. You know what is coming next, because the original clockmaker built it that way."
"All right," said Khadgar. "Time is a clock."
"Ah, but time is also an hourglass," said the older Mage, reaching for one planted on the mantel and flipping it over. Khadgar looked at the timepiece, and tried to remember if it was there before he had brought up the wine, or even before Medivh reached for it.
"The hourglass also measures time, true?" said Medivh. "Yet here you never know which particle of sand will move from the upper half to the lower half at any instant. Were you to number the sands, the order would be slightly different each time. But the end result is always the same - all the sand has moved from the top to the bottom. What order it happens in does not matter." The old man's eyes brightened for a moment. "So?" he asked.
"So," said Khadgar. "You're saying that it may not matter if you set up your tower here because an explosion created this valley and warped the nature of reality around it, or that the explosion occurred because you would eventually come here, and the nature of the universe needed to give you the tools you wanted to stay."
"Close enough," said Medivh.
Medivh é dos meus ;D
Amei e estou amando essa porra! Fodam-se fãs de Harry Potter e derivados que falam que os livros deles são ótimos e as melhores coisas do mundo etc. Só vão saber o que é bom mesmo quando lerem os livros de Warcraft.
"Time is a regular progression of instants. Like sands through an hourglass," said Khadgar.
"Excelent analogy," said Medivh. "One i was going to use myself, and then compare the hourglass with the mechanical clock. You see the difference between the two?"
Khadgar shook his head slowly as Medivh sipped on his wine.
Eventually, the mage spoke, "No, you're not daft, boy. It's a hard concept to wrap your brain around. The clock is a mechanical simulation of time, each beat controlled by a turning of the gears. You can look at a clock and know that everything advances by one tic of the wheel, one slip of the gears. You know what is coming next, because the original clockmaker built it that way."
"All right," said Khadgar. "Time is a clock."
"Ah, but time is also an hourglass," said the older Mage, reaching for one planted on the mantel and flipping it over. Khadgar looked at the timepiece, and tried to remember if it was there before he had brought up the wine, or even before Medivh reached for it.
"The hourglass also measures time, true?" said Medivh. "Yet here you never know which particle of sand will move from the upper half to the lower half at any instant. Were you to number the sands, the order would be slightly different each time. But the end result is always the same - all the sand has moved from the top to the bottom. What order it happens in does not matter." The old man's eyes brightened for a moment. "So?" he asked.
"So," said Khadgar. "You're saying that it may not matter if you set up your tower here because an explosion created this valley and warped the nature of reality around it, or that the explosion occurred because you would eventually come here, and the nature of the universe needed to give you the tools you wanted to stay."
"Close enough," said Medivh.
Medivh é dos meus ;D
Amei e estou amando essa porra! Fodam-se fãs de Harry Potter e derivados que falam que os livros deles são ótimos e as melhores coisas do mundo etc. Só vão saber o que é bom mesmo quando lerem os livros de Warcraft.
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