The illusion of time

And if I told you that “now” may not exist for part of modern physics, past, present and future may be occurring simultaneously in a kind of eternal block. Albert Einstein already said that the distinction between past, present and future is just a stubbornly persistent illusion, but in 2026 that discussion stopped being solely philosophical, between Google quantum chips, time crystals and scientists trying to send information to the past, science is slowly beginning to admit something uncomfortable.

Maybe time is not exactly what we imagine, maybe it is a construction of the mind and we are learning to manipulate it. But then an inevitable question arises, why do we perceive time linearly? Scientists like Robert Lanza through the theory of biocentrism defend that time is not something that happens out there in the universe, but a process linked directly to consciousness, without an observer, the universe would exist only as a gigantic soup of probabilities where everything happens at the same time, and if that were true, then the sensation of past and future may perhaps be just a biological interface created by the human mind to organize reality.

And this is where things begin to cross the border between philosophy and technology. One of the most curious experiences comes from Google Quantum AI, which recently attracted attention again by studying the so-called time crystals, the idea seems absurd at first glance, unlike common matter, these crystals manage to oscillate continuously without consuming energy in the traditional way, in other words, they break something that physics has always treated as almost sacred, the symmetry of time.

And that was not just in theory. In 2026, researchers like Daryl Segman and teams of physicists at Inssbrook presented simulations involving two simultaneously coexisting time dimensions, the goal is not to build a cinematic time machine, at least for now, the real bet is on quantum computing.

The hypothesis is that future processors can explore retro-chance phenomena, performing certain calculations in such an unusual way that in theory the result would seem to influence the system's own computational past. It seems crazy, but part of quantum physics already works seriously with these mathematical probabilities.

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