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Letter: Thinking differently about the passage of time (2)

Published 11 February 2026

From Lyn Williams, Cilffriw, Neath, UK

Why do we have to complicate everything? Time isn’t an illusion. It is a fact. Without time, cells would not form or multiply and every living thing on Earth would die. Perhaps we should be looking to biologists and not physicists.

Issue no. 3582 published 14 February 2026

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