Beginning Is the End and End Is the Beginning
For a long time, modern science has told us a very clean story. The Big Bang is the beginning of time. A singularity inside a black hole is the end of time. One is a birth. The other is a death. But the more I think about it, the more this picture feels incomplete. What if time was never part of the universe at all? When we say “time”, what are we really talking about? We don’t measure time directly. We measure change . A clock doesn’t show time — it shows the state change of something physical. A quartz crystal oscillates. An atom transitions between energy levels. We decide: “When this change happens this many times , let’s call it one second.” So time isn’t something flowing in the universe. It’s a reference system humans invented to keep track of how things change. If nothing changes, time disappears. That already tells us something important: time depends on entropy, not the other way around. Entropy creates the illusion of time Entropy increases. State...
