Time

Time is one of the trickier concepts in science. Stephen Hawking has wondered, why does time flow in the direction it does? Why do we remember the past but not the future? Is there only one past and unlimited possible futures or is there only one future, the one we happened to take? Of course, there is no actual past, or future, at least form our point of view. There is only ever now. Past and future exist as concepts only.

Timothy Morton in Hyperobjects coins the phrase "temporal undulation". States where time dosn't flow at the constant rate it appears to on Earth. We know, from Einstein, Hawking and others, that time indeed flows at different rates according to how fast an observer travels through space. I have coined a term, at least to explore in concept, "temporal widdershins". If you have ever looked at the water of a river flowing past a rock or log, you can see little swirls and eddies where the water flows backwards a bit as it passes. Does time do that? Plenty of science fiction has wondered the same, particularly in relation to the strength of gravity. But could it happen in a sonic sense?

Inside the sound phantom, maybe you could wander about on the timeline of all the sounds a thing could make and has made. Maybe you would be able to hear snippets of long ago and echoes of the future. Maybe several different aspects from different times at once. Since sound, like movement, is change over time perhaps it can be distorted in a way that we can hear.