The Human in the Equation
A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, and the limits of physics as a “mirror” of reality.
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Posts tagged "Arrow of Time".
A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, and the limits of physics as a “mirror” of reality.
An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and time’s arrow—is the texture that makes life and meaning possible.
If time is not a river or a dimension but only the distance between events, what then becomes of us? Is a life measured by years, or by the density of change it contains? This essay traces the haunting question of time—not to answer it, but to wander through its puzzles: the minus sign in the line element, the ghost of dt, antimatter’s supposed reversal, and the possibility of a physics without clocks. Time appears less as something we move through and more as something we ourselves measure—a spacing of events that refuses ever to be final.
Why does our universe exist in matter, when physics tells us it should have been born in perfect balance with antimatter? From CPT symmetry to Feynman’s vision of particles moving backward in time, from Penrose’s maps of spacetime to Hawking’s idea of imaginary time, the mystery deepens. This essay explores a radical possibility: that antimatter was never lost, but displaced into a shadow universe, unfolding along a different rhythm of time. Could this hidden twin still whisper across the folds of spacetime — perhaps even reaching from tomorrow into today?
