{"id":63063,"date":"2026-01-07T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63063"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:48:23","slug":"time-might-not-exist-and-were-starting-to-understand-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63063","title":{"rendered":"Time might not exist \u2013 and we&#8217;re starting to understand why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nature of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/tags\/time\">time<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most profound and longstanding problems in physics \u2013 one that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/qanda\/mystery-time-physics-cant-agree\">no one can agree on<\/a>. From our perspective, time seems to steadily progress forward with each tick of the clock.<\/p>\n<p>But the closer we look, the more bizarre time becomes \u2013 from equations that state time\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-87323-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should flow as freely backwards<\/a>\u00a0as it does forwards, to the strange quantum realm where cause and effect can flip on their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Could it even be that time itself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/science\/is-time-an-illusion\">is an illusion<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What makes time so confounding is that we have three very different ways of defining it, which don\u2019t easily fit together.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/time-might-not-exist-and-we-re-starting-to-understand-why\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/time-might-not-exist-and-we-re-starting-to-understand-why\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets The nature of\u00a0time\u00a0is one of the most profound and longstanding problems in physics \u2013 one that\u00a0no one can agree on. From our perspective, time seems to steadily progress forward with each tick of the clock. But the closer we look, the more bizarre time becomes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time might not exist \u2013 and we&#8217;re starting to understand why&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63064,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063\/revisions\/63064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}