Theories
3 entries in Time
Sound Is Becoming. Light Is Being.
Sound cannot exist without a medium because sound is a disturbance inside matter. Light needs no medium because light is a disturbance of the electromagnetic field itself. That difference is not just physics. It is the clearest physical demonstration that time is not the universal container we feel it to be.
You Are Always in the Past
There is a processing lag between the world and your experience of it. What you call now is the brain's best reconstruction of what just happened. You have never experienced a present moment. You have only ever experienced the very recent past, assembled into the feeling of now.
Time Is Just Memory
Time is not a thing the universe is doing to you. It is a thing your memory is doing inside you, and the only reason you believe in it so completely is that the system producing it is also the system reporting on it.