A quickie on time. For those with little of it or are impressed by tiny nuggets of information as I am.
Ray Cummings laid it out in 'The Girl in the Golden Atom' all the way back in 1922.
Probably other people have said as much even earlier.
The Big Business Man smiled. "Time," he said, "is what keeps everything from happening at once."
โAnd space,โ he added, โkeeps everything from happening where I am.โ