Back in late 2009, I got to thinking about the difference between the past and the future. That led me to examine the boundary between them. Previously I was pondering the problem of Schrodinger's cat. I wondered if, as the past/future boundary sweeps over a particular spacetime point, might that in itself collapse the quantum wave function into a defiinite state. Sort of deciding things in favor of the objective collapse theorists. This line of wondering led me to write a paper called "The Nature of Now". The main thread of the paper consists of four pages and there are a large number of hyperlinks to other titbits including a glossary, making it much longer than what I anticipate for future speculation articles.

This speculation arose as I was watching Sharon and Harriette working on a jigsaw puzzle. I wondered about the impressive speed with which the picture was emerging. How much does the application of human intent and intelligence impove the achievment of improbable results? This sort of picks up on a theme from the Nature of Now discussed above.