I love Time stuff. The "connected train" theory of Time is a
   nice one; I like it, although it's really a digitizing of Time
   but with self-emergent properties. Still nice though; I like
   self-emergent theories. Still though, when they get back to the
   start, they'll still be stuck. Hadron won't help. It's a
   shell-game at present, moving the pea around. But hopefully
   they'll _eventually_ come up with somewhat more timey-whimy time
   theories. I keep waiting. We're still stuck on a --> shaped
   causality, even if it's shortening the time arrow, although the
   emergent time _does_ offer *some* time retrograde action, at
   least at the tiniest levels. But our cognitive systems are
   what's in the way anyhow. Me? I think Time is far more
   expressive than all that. See Heidegger for one set of slightly
   different concepts. There's others. I have my own; allowing for
   future completed goals to influence the origin without
   controlling it by providing a potential pathway without it being
   the exclusive one while not requiring mathematical oddities like
   multiple universes either. It's just combining the
   fate/free-will thing together, which isn't hard. Theoretical
   Physics is a baby in the philosophy department but it's getting
   there. But philosophy is a baby in the literature department, so
   they all have a ways to go, in my book :)