What if time isn’t the deep fabric of reality, but a useful invention? Real, yes—time exists—but as a shadow cast by something more fundamental.

Changism is a philosophy and physics framework that proposes exactly that. It begins with a simple but radical claim: time is real, but it is neither a dimension nor a substance. It exists because we invented a system to measure change. 

The real stuff of the universe is not a flowing timeline or a static block of spacetime we travel through, but change itself: ceaseless, local, structured, and irreducible.

We are not beings “in time,” moving from past to future. We are nodes of change, agents within an ever-shifting web of transformations. Time is not a river we travel through. It is the clock we built to track the rhythms of change around us—and within us.

Articles about Changism:

Changism: Beyond Time as a Dimension — Bringing Time Down to Earth with the Philosophy of Change 

Changism 2: The Bewitchment of Language in Physics

Changism 5: The Philosophy of Changism — It’s not that things change; rather, change “things” 

The Time Of Change — Why Time Is Not Change, Not a Stage, Not a Substance — but the Ledger of Change