Space-time continuum

I'm still having trouble understanding why 12:01pm happens BEFORE 11:01pm.

hypothesis non fingo

D[aughter]: Daddy, do you mean that Sir Isaac Newton thought that all hypotheses were just made up like stories?

F[ather]: Yes—precisely that.

D: But didn’t he discover gravity? With the apple?

F: No, dear. He invented it.

from Steps to an Ecology of Mind, by Gregory Bateson.

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My father, the geneticist William Bateson, used to read us passages of the Bible at breakfast — lest we grow up to be empty-headed atheists;
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The extraordinary achievement of the writers of the first chapter of Genesis was their perception of the problem: Where does order come from? They observed that the land and the water were, in fact, separate and that species were separate; they saw that such separation and sorting in the universe presented a fundamental problem.