Physicists have quietly been rewriting what time is, and the picture that’s emerging looks nothing like the ticking-arrow metaphor most of us carry around in our heads. Instead of a universal flow marching everything from past to future, time is starting to look more like something built from relationships, information, and perspective. Recent work in ...
We live by time like it’s law: alarms at seven, meetings at nine, deadlines at midnight. Yet, the deeper physicists and philosophers dig, the less time behaves like the neat, ticking line we grew up with. Instead, it warps, frays, disappears, and sometimes even runs backward in our equations. From quantum experiments that seem ...
You glance at your watch, check the calendar, plan your evening. Everything in your life revolves around the passage of time. It’s hard to imagine anything more fundamental to reality than the steady march from past to present to future. Yet according to some of the most fascinating theories in modern physics, time as you ...
