No time and space

I spent a few days in a place that feels like the end of the world, ski touring and reading “The End of Time” by Julian Barbour. Certain landscapes seem to loosen the grip of familiar thinking. They make it easier to consider ideas that would otherwise remain beyond our usual imagination — such as a universe in which time and space may not exist as we normally assume. In that sense, the mountains became a place of incubation.

The most difficult thing is to search for a black cat in a dark room,
especially if there is no cat.

Confuzius?