Time is often treated as self-evident.
A background against which events unfold.
A line that always runs, regardless of what happens.
Within the IVO lens, time is not a starting point, but a consequence.
Time is not the space in which movement takes place.
Time appears when movement arises.
Without difference, there is no sequence.
Without direction, there is no before and after.
A fully symmetric field knows no time.
Nothing happens, because nothing can differ.
Within the IVO lens, time arises when direction (V) appears within a context (O).
That moment — the breaking of symmetry — is the first event.
Not an event in time, but the event with which time begins.
Direction creates sequence.
Sequence creates time.
In that same movement, space also appears:
space as differentiation, as the possibility for difference to spread.
The Big Bang can be understood as an extreme form of asymmetry.
First there was possibility (O).
Then direction arose (V).
With that, time and space appeared.
But this is not a unique, closed moment.
The IVO lens makes no distinction between cosmic and local:
the same process repeats wherever asymmetry arises.
There is no reason to assume that the emergence of time and space stopped after the beginning of the universe.
Every new asymmetry:
– every break in equilibrium
– every direction that arises
– every movement that introduces difference
→ generates time and space anew, locally and relationally.
Time is therefore not one uniform flow, but a multi-scale phenomenon.
Where there is little movement, there is little time.
Where much difference arises, time accelerates.
Observation (I) is not a condition for time, but a consequence of it.
First there must be movement.
Only then can something be observed.
Observation structures time afterward:
by forming memory, meaning, and continuity.
But time itself arises before interpretation.
The assumption that time always "runs" conceals what is actually happening.
Time does not run.
Time is generated.
What we experience as a continuous flow is the result of ongoing, overlapping processes of direction and difference.
Clocks measure repetition, not time itself.
They follow rhythm, not emergence.
Within the IVO lens, time is:
- not a fundamental quantity
- not an independent dimension
- not a universal background
Time is what difference does when it persists.
Time does not make movement possible.
Movement makes time visible.
Where asymmetry appears, time and space appear with it.
Not once, but again and again.