https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06576-7
Regular Article
On some properties of that strange component of Nature called “time”
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Via G. Amendola 173, 70126, Bari, Italy
2
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
Received:
10
June
2025
Accepted:
20
June
2025
Published online:
4
July
2025
Are time travels possible? Is the past still existing? And is the future already existing? We try to give an answer to these and other questions concerning the properties of time and the close connection (but deep physical difference) between time and space.
Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2025 Awards for Essays on Gravitation.
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