What Does It Mean When People Say Time Is Merely an Illusion
And, do we really control what happens to us?
Picture this: You’re watching a YouTube video, right? Maybe learning how to boil water or something equally life-changing. And I tell you, at this exact moment, you’re also being born and lying on your deathbed. You’d think, “Auctor, have you been hitting the bottles a little too early today?”
But, according to some very smart people wearing lab coats and not understanding basic fashion, this could actually be true.
Challenging our usual view of time as a straight line from then to now to later.
Imagine the universe is like a little kid with a paintbrush, slapping together pictures of everything happening at once.
Each doodle captures a moment — you’re missing your bus, someone’s being born, a galaxy far away is doing… galaxy things. It’s like making a flipbook where each page is a moment in time. We usually think the past is our awkward middle school photos — gone and thankfully forgotten — and the future is like a distant vacation: planned but not yet enjoyed.
But what if our universe-kid didn’t just make a flipbook but actually stacked each painting into a massive pile?
