Yeah, this story was definitely about timeless physics! I remember reading it and thinking that the Principle of Least Time reminded me of the principle of least action from Lagrangian mechanics.https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1129619129294413830 …
It's a special case! I intellectually understood that was the point when I read it but gwern laid out a picture of what the subjective experience of this might actually feel like that feels rich and worth exploring more.
