Time

Arrows of Time

A project by Quanta Magazine. Text by Dan Falk. Design and illustrations by Eleanor Lutz and Olena Shmahalo.

The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to record it, how it regulates life, and whether it exists as a fundamental building block of the universe. This timeline traces our evolving understanding of time through a history of observations in CULTURE, PHYSICS, TIMEKEEPING & BIOLOGY.
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COSMOLOGY(2016)   A Debate Over the Physics of Time By DAN FALK Our best theories suggest that the universe is fixed and time only appears to pass. Yet some physicists hope to replace this “block universe” with a physical theory of time. Read the article ******************************* UNIVERSALITY(2019)   The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow By NATALIE WOLCHOVER A new look at a ubiquitous phenomenon has uncovered unexpected fractal behavior that could give us clues about the early universe and the arrow of time. Read the article