Time feels like a steady rhythm — ticking clocks, growing trees, galaxies spinning. But what if time isn’t built into the universe at all? What if it’s something that emerges — a byproduct of deeper changes happening underneath everything we see?
That’s the bold idea behind the VERSF model, which introduces a concept called the clock field. In this framework, time isn’t a background stage — it’s the music that plays when entropy (disorder) starts to flow. The clock field is like the instrument that plays that music. When entropy is still, there’s no sound — no ticking, no change, no time. But as entropy begins to shift — in a star, a thought, or a particle interaction — the clock field activates. That’s when time starts to “tick.”
You can think of it like this: entropy is the signal, and the clock field is the speaker. Or, to put it in physics terms, it’s like how magnetism emerges from moving electric charges. Entropy is the primary field — the source of change. The clock field is a secondary response, something that forms as a consequence of entropy’s flow. In regions of the universe where nothing changes — no heat, no motion, no life — the clock field doesn’t function. Time, in a real physical sense, simply doesn’t exist there.
So the next time you check your watch or feel the seconds slip by, realize this: you’re not just drifting through time. You’re participating in the great unfolding of entropy — and the clock field is quietly registering every moment of that change. Time isn’t fundamental. It’s earned. And you’re helping to make it happen.