I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless… — Lee Smolin

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.