In this temporally anomalous wasteland everything existential emerges through the physical: a bit of soccer, a lot of sex, still more violence.

Temporally, Proxima b is our next-door neighbor, a contemporary compared with the crotchety galaxies several billion light-years away.

The conventional approach is to break such data into chunks for analysis—dividing them up geographically on a grid, for example, or temporally, into days.