Have you ever wondered if astronauts age differently than those of us down here on Earth? Imagine floating high above the planet, gazing out at the blue marble below, knowing that every second you spend up there ticks by at a different rate than it does for your loved ones back home. It sounds like ...
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 ...
Time should march forward in a clean, orderly line, and space should simply be the stage on which the universe unfolds. Yet the deeper physicists push into the quantum and cosmic extremes, the less these old intuitions seem to hold. From particles that appear to influence the past to black holes that erase information, ...
Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world – you wake up, you rush through your day, you watch the clock, you celebrate another birthday. Yet the closer scientists look at time, the stranger it becomes. Physics, cosmology, and neuroscience all suggest that our everyday sense of time as a steady, universal ...
Every second of every day, millions of people around the world rely on GPS to navigate their way through life. From finding the nearest coffee shop to guiding massive cargo ships across oceans, this satellite-based system has become as essential as electricity itself. But here’s something that might blow your mind: the clocks ticking away ...
