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A first time is treated as an event with more in it than the ones that follow. Nothing in the event is different. Derived from the two halves of the Arrow Theorem’s antecedent, a first time is a reading taken where expectation holds no term — which is why nothing is lost at the second time, and why no first time can be arranged. … readWhat Is a First Time
You were taught that a period of time has a speed — that the fifties were slow and the world has accelerated. The foundation I work from says frequency is undefined at the boundary that sentence points at, so a period has no rate to have: a pace is an arithmetic done here, marks counted against a counter, both read in the present. That is why every century files the same complaint about acceleration, why two people in one hour honestly report opposite speeds, and why the decades most people file as slower are, on the measured ratio, the faster ones. … readWhat Is Pace
A deadline is supposed to be a point ahead of you that approaches, arrives and passes, weighing more the nearer it gets. The foundation says there is nothing ahead of you: a deadline is a present mark that names a clock reading and a condition on the record, and the weight is not the nearness of the date but your own reading of your own unfinished act against the prediction the mark installed — which is why an extension relieves before any work is done, why a deadline you never heard of weighs nothing as it passes, and why the hopelessly late go calm. … readWhat Is a Deadline
Age is supposed to be the time a thing has behind it, and older is supposed to mean farther back. Duration is undefined exactly where that picture stores it: an age is a count taken in the present, between two marks, against a counter you chose to trust — which is why a bronze can lose two thousand years in an afternoon and a wedding can feel nearer than last year’s job. … readWhat Is Age
It is always now. The fixed point arrives later—as a coordinate, a record, a story we tell about where reality was. … readPosition Is an Artifact of the Past
You were taught time is a road and that you are travelling along it. Almost everything strange about time comes from that one picture, and it is the wrong one. You are not moving — you are vibrating between two things that do not exist. … readWhat Is Time