Research Program / Claims / time-3

There is no true linear time; the past, present, and future exist simultaneously, forming the “spacious present.”

没有真正的线性时间,过去、现在和未来同时存在,形成“广袤的当下”。

Concept time · Domain Nonlinear Time and Self-Cognition · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
  • early-class-2
Adjudicating experiment
If the original statement refers only to eternalism or the block universe and shares all observational predictions with conventional relativity, no sample size or study duration can directly adjudicate its ontological interpretation. A narrower, researchable version is a relational-time model: construct a clock and a system using photons or superconducting qubits, vary clock quality, entanglement, and decoherence, and compare conditional evolution with pre-registered models using approximately 10^6 measurements over 6–12 months. The claim that “fundamental time does not exist” can be tested only if differential predictions beyond standard quantum mechanics are provided.
Suggested paper title
Relational Quantum Dynamics Under Controlled Clock Decoherence
What it would overturn
If experiments demonstrate that time can emerge only as a relational quantity, this would revise the assumption that time must enter fundamental dynamics as an independent external parameter; eternalism alone does not overturn relativity.
Candidate labs / funders
Ekaterina Moreva,Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica; Marco Genovese,Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica; Lorenzo Maccone,量子时间与量子基础
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The claim has conceptual similarities to block-universe and relational-time views but adds no distinguishable predictions; “simultaneous existence” also lacks a specified reference frame or operational meaning.
Note
Relativity rejects universal absolute simultaneity; experiments have not uniquely established eternalism, nor do they support a physical “now” shared by the entire universe.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Time from quantum entanglement: An experimental illustration — Ekaterina Moreva;Giorgio Brida;Marco Gramegna;Vittorio Giovannetti;Lorenzo Maccone;Marco Genovese (2014), Physical Review A
    相关模型实验:通过纠缠光子演示静态整体中的关系性演化,没有证明所有宇宙事件同时存在。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.052122)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim time-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/time-3