How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
He grimaced. See what would happen? Or had happened? Or could happen? Human language did not fit the physics. There was no tense of the verb to be that reflected the looping sense of time. No way to turn the language on the pivot of physics, to apply a torque that would make the paradoxes dissolve into an ordered cycle, endlessly turning. (45.2)
As people have expanded their knowledge, language has expanded to fit the ideas we've come up with. It's been rocky at times, and sometimes language needs to play catch-up, but we imagine it'll fall into step with physics soon.