As the days and nights become longer, growing crops becomes more difficult. This catastrophe, “the slowing”, causes detrimental changes to climate, plant, and animal life. The earth’s rotation has slowed, adding minutes, then hours, to the length of each new day. Julia’s world is without pattern because the 24-hour day is no longer married to the rising and setting of the sun. That’s the world of Julia, an 11-year-old California girl in Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles. So, what would happen if these rhythmic patterns-the ones that we set our calendars and clocks by-no longer existed? When do we plant crops? When do we harvest? When will the harsh weather arrive? As a person who studies and teaches mathematics, I believe that some mathematics was developed as an attempt to bring order to our lives.
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