Police investigations, HSE investigations, public enquiries, court cases, criminal trials -
All take aeons to investigate events which took perhaps only moments in real time
Why should this be so? Just the difference between looking from the outside & looking from the inside? Looking backwards rather than forwards - ex post rather than ex ante? The need to look at an event from many different angles, even from 360°? Or - which amounts to the same thing - the need to take account of many peoples views & weigh the primacy of eg victims family versus society or established law?
What does the length of enquiry v time of incident tell us about time in the philosophical sense?
