Time as an Emergent Phenomenon: Clocks Inside the Universe, Not a Fundamental Backdrop
A Space Daily piece outlines the view that time may not be a fundamental feature of reality; in quantum gravity, the Wheeler–DeWitt equation lacks an external clock, while the Page–Wootters idea shows time could arise from correlations between subsystems within the universe. Entropy and thermodynamics may explain the arrow of time, and experiments like Moreva illustrate relational time—yet the notion remains unresolved and not a claim that time is fake, just that its deepest description may be clockless.