Time's Emergent Pulse: A Thermodynamic Journey from Cosmos to Consciousness

By Joel Anthony Collins

I fed my theory to ChatGPT and GrokAI and after a bunch of fine tuning and stylistic changes this is what I came up with. - Time is a quiet mystery, a rhythm pulsing through every moment we live, yet its essence has eluded us across centuries of thought. Philosophers, scientists, and dreamers alike have grappled with its nature-is it a fixed stream carrying all events, or something subtler, a shadow cast by the universe's own unfolding? We propose that time is not a fundamental thread woven into reality's fabric, but an emergent phenomenon rising from the thermodynamic dance of cosmic expansion and entropy's steady climb. This is a hypothesis rooted in physics, one we will explore with equations and reflections, suggesting that time's flow is tied to the rate of entropy change, shaped by the universe's scale, its geometry, and the contributions of spacetime, black holes, and radiation. In a distant heat death, where entropy peaks and change ceases, time may lose all operational meaning. Beyond this cosmic arc, we will ponder its echo in our minds, linking psychological time-our subjective sense of moments-to these same entropy gradients, forging a bridge between the stars and ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F332ZJ24
• ISBN13: 9798316204922
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"