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# Against the Theory of Static Time
- URL: https://www.annabelascher.com/against-the-theory-of-static-time/
- Published: 2026-09-26T16:47:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-26T16:47:50.000Z
- Author: Annabel Ascher
- Tags: Culture, Cosmology, Philosphy, Meaning, Essays

Time is not an illusion, it is the driving force of existence. I also posit that the static “all-time” theory is wrong. It conflates time with space. Due to the simultaneity of time, ALL SPACE always exists--but within the linear unidirectional framework of time. EVERYTHING is happening all at once throughout 3D space at any given point in time.

I believe we are looking the wrong direction in the attempt to create the “meaning” we crave. I have begun to think that our human need for meaning is a double edged sword. The religions that would frame everything as an illusion are wrong, of course. Life is all too real. There is objective reality. There is time, that is not illusory. And that is the crux--the invisible dimension of time is the driving force, creating a situation where the most *any of us* gets is a tiny slice and then nothing.  
  
Life is not an illusion--it is *temporary.* And that is very similar in the end. In three generations from our death, no living soul will have any memory of us. In that light, the only *meaning* is in the experience itself--life is to be LIVED, each moment, each day, each year, for as long as we can.  
  
But, one might ask, what of nobility of cause? Of building a thing that lasts?  
  
Yes, there is *meaning* in that sense, but only on the COLLECTIVE level. Very few of us act individually on the collective level. Hitler and Trump are examples of two who did with the twisted “meaning-making” of cruelty and dismantling. MLK and the Jesus of the Christian stories are two who acted in that capacity for good ends.

Most of us are a small part of the total collective. What we do matters ONLY in the greater context. For example, when the ozone layer was saved by millions of individuals changing behavior. Beyond that, the meaning lies in the living of life as its own end. As noted in Douglas Adam’s little joke about “42” in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe.  
  
This does not imply that we are powerless, only that we must act in concert, as happened with the ozone. The living earth hangs in the balance. But we have not yet generated the collective will to make the necessary corrections. If we do so soon enough, the world will, in a sense, be born anew. If we fail, the passage of time will continue, but will be entirely meaningless.

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