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Meditations on Time #1: Time, Memory, and the Cosmos

Meditations on Time #1: Time, Memory, and the Cosmos

How Torsion and Memory Shape the Flow of Existence

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Aug 08, 2025
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“Time is our experience of a being-time’s impermanence.”

—Shinshu Roberts1

Welcome to the first installment of a new series of posts entitled, Meditations on Time. Right now, I’m in hyper-writing mode, so I’ll be writing and posting more frequently than usual on Substack, particularly for my paid subscribers.

So, why do I consistently focus on the nature of time? The answer is simple. Time is one of the greatest mysteries there is. Few, if any, know precisely what it is, and many have taken the easy way out by claiming it to be nothing more than an illusion.

The Reality of Time

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