Questioning the Cosmic Clock: Is Time’s Passage a Universal Constant? For most of human history, the passage of time felt like an immutable constant, a steady, unwavering river flowing from the past to the future. Isaac Newton formalized this intuition with his concept of absolute, universal time – a single, objective timeline ticking uniformly throughout … Read more
Challenging Our Deepest Intuition: What If Cause Doesn’t Always Come Before Effect? For as long as we’ve been able to string thoughts together, one principle has seemed utterly self-evident: causes come before effects. It’s woven into the very fabric of our understanding of the world. We flick a switch (cause), and the light turns on … Read more
Is Time an Illusion? How Your Brain Might Be Inventing the Linear Flow We live our lives by the clock, marking the seconds, minutes, and hours as they tick steadily forward. Our memories are cataloged chronologically, our plans laid out along a perceived timeline stretching into the future. The idea that time flows linearly, like … Read more
We experience time as an undeniable, relentless flow – the ticking clock, the changing seasons, the irreversible march from birth to death. It’s so fundamental to our perception of reality that questioning its very existence feels almost absurd. Yet, a growing number of physicists and philosophers are daring to ask: what if time, as we … Read more