In the Interest of Time

Despite its ubiquitousness, many of the contributors to this issue of Pari Perspectives propose that time does not exist, though they admit that our sense of time does. It’s just that our understandings don’t keep up with the science.  The evidence from physics is at odds with how life feels. Our shared idea of what the concepts of ‘future’ or ‘past’ mean may not apply to everything everywhere in the Universe, but it does reflect the reality of our lives here on Earth. So our experience of time joins the ranks of such phenomena as our perception of walking on a flat earth yet knowing it is spherical; our belief that the Sun will rise in the morning and set in the evening, while knowing that it is the Earth and not that the Sun that is moving. 

We hope you’ll be able to set some time aside to explore this issue of Pari Perspectives, which looks at Time from the point of view of physicists, past cultures, its relationship to creativity, geometry and time, timelessness, beyond time, politics and time, 3D time, and time travel.