{"id":458794,"date":"2026-02-09T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:29:47","slug":"time-is-real-if-you-view-it-through-the-lens-of-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458794\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is real \u2013 if you view it through the lens of heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way most people think about time is wrong. The notion that we share a \u2018common time\u2019 moving in a single direction is a useful illusion but, as physicists have understood since the discoveries of Albert Einstein, it doesn\u2019t comport with our understanding of the Universe. However, as the Italian theoretical physicist and writer <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/carlo-rovelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlo Rovelli<\/a> argues in this short documentary from Quanta Magazine, this doesn\u2019t mean we should abandon the concept of time altogether. Instead, we should recognise that \u2018many possible times\u2019 coexist. Rovelli further proposes that the best way to understand how time actually works is through the lens of entropy and, by extension, heat. This idea lies at the centre of his \u2018thermal time hypothesis\u2019, which he developed alongside the French mathematician Alain Connes. Rovelli also discusses the humbling perspective that arises from the distinction between how we perceive the world and the deeper reality that underlies it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The way most people think about time is wrong. The notion that we share a \u2018common time\u2019 moving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[199,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-458794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}