"Time flies," "time waits for no one," "as time goes on": The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world.

Last winter, I taught Introduction to Philosophy for the first time since the 1980s, so I was curious to find out what questions most interested the students. I was surprised to find that many ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Our measures for time (other than the second) are fundamentally derived from the rotation and orbit of the Earth around the sun. But that's only the most relevant time if you're in approximately ...