{"id":68517,"date":"2025-10-29T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68517"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:26:50","slug":"does-time-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/does-time-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Time Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"Theoretical physicists have long argued that time is not real\u2014that it is an illusion. This view logically follows the conception of space and time as a unified, four-dimensional \u201cspace-time continuum,\u201d introduced by Hermann Minkowski and used by Albert Einstein to formulate his theories of relativity. Because the General Theory of Relativity has not yet been successfully combined with quantum theory into a unified \u201ctheory of everything,\u201d some physicists have seriously considered abolishing time as a reality. This position makes sense if the world is thought of as purely physical because then, indeed, there is no time. Experience, however, teaches us that the world we live<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicists have long argued that time is not real\u2014that it is an illusion. This view logically follows the conception of space and time as a unified, four-dimensional \u201cspace-time continuum,\u201d introduced by Hermann Minkowski and used by Albert Einstein to formulate his theories of relativity. Because the General Theory of Relativity has not yet been successfully combined with quantum theory into a unified \u201ctheory of everything,\u201d some physicists have seriously considered abolishing time as a reality. This position makes sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22201,"featured_media":68115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8825],"tags":[11714,8798,11715],"class_list":["post-68517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-natural-sciences","tag-ausgabe-41-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-44-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}