Experiment 2

In this interactive, you can move your mouse and interact with a cone in a 3D setting. This was inspired by this week's reading from My Mother is a Computer; I think time is a continuum and can't be discrete. As Albert Einstein once said, "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

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