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Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
- January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and we die, in exactly that order. We plan our lives around time, measure it obsessively and experience it as an unbroken flow from past to future. It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.
Originally published at Phys.org