If it's true that "time is mathematics
, where there is no past and future" (Alberto Palazzi, Relativity from Lorentz to Einstein), then we can read that backwards 6 and colon as mathematical symbols. Hence,
∂8:88 can be understood to mean a "partial derivative of 8 with respect to 88." Otherwise, we may have to accept that the time is
∂8:88 PM AM World Time Home Time, and that the temperature is a toasty 188 Celsius Fahrenheit. Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator
Ed Hunsinger.