This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Time feels like the most basic feature of reality.

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s before ...

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...