Sometime in the fifth century before Christ, in the Greek colony of Elea on the Italian coast, a philosopher named Zeno proposed a thought experiment that has never entirely gone away. Picture an arrow in flight. Now consider a single instant of that flight, a durationless slice of time. At that instant, the arrow occupies … Continue reading The Arrow and the Mountain: Zeno, Timescale, and the Moving Stillness of Sura 27:88