Changism proposes that time is real but not fundamental. What is fundamental is change — structured, local, and continuous. Time is the system we use to measure and coordinate change, not a dimension we inhabit or traverse.

Changism: Time as a Ledger of Change (Not a Stage Beneath It)

We live as if time were the deep fabric of reality: a river that carries us forward, or a fourth dimension that exists “out there” independent of what happens within it.

Changism proposes a cleaner picture: the world changes, and “time” is the accounting system we use to compare one change with another. A second is not a substance in motion; it’s a count—a way of keeping score on repeating processes and translating between rates.

Time is a ledger of change, not a stage beneath change.

From that simple swap, familiar puzzles begin to rearrange:

The present isn’t a glowing bead sliding along a cosmic wire; it’s simply the name we give to ongoing activity.
The past is not a region “behind us,” but the network of durable records—marks that persist and can be consulted.
The future is not a completed room “ahead,” but a structured space of not-yet-recorded possibilities.

Changism then takes aim at the most influential static picture in modern philosophy of time: eternalism / the block universe.

The critique is not that spacetime geometry is useless—quite the opposite. The claim is that geometry is a superb bookkeeping tool for comparing paths and coordinating observations, but it does not follow that reality is a frozen slab.

Static ontologies tend to explain “apparent change” using processes that themselves only make sense as genuine unfolding—neurons updating, memories being written, signals propagating—creating a hidden circularity.

Physics, without metaphysical inflation

Changism is built to keep what works in physics while resisting a common mistake: letting the grammar of our equations silently harden into ontology.

Relativity trains us to live without a universal “now-slice” while keeping one world in act.
Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) trains us to live without a universal state-description while keeping one world in act.

In both cases, the moral is not “nothing is real,” but reality is not arranged for a view from nowhere.

Changism treats “state” and “time-parameter” as ledgers—useful scorecards—unless and until we can justify promoting them into literal furniture of the world.

That discipline yields a positive program:

Events as interactions (“meetings”)
Facts as stabilized registrations (“marks”)
Objectivity as agreement via comparable records and reproducible standards

A world of local writings becomes a public world not by magic, but by stabilization + translation + closure tests.

Cosmology: tempo, inference, and testable signatures

Changism also develops a concrete, conservative cosmology thread:

treat major tensions (like the Hubble tension) as a clash of procedures that may be amplified by hidden clock assumptions—especially when we combine wall-bound calibrators with light that has sampled a void-dominated universe.

The proposal is not “new substances by default,” but better bookkeeping by default: keep early-universe anchors intact while auditing late-time readings for tempo-structure and path-weighting.

In this framework, three objects carry the story:

τ(x): a tempo field (how fast good counters run under local conditions)
a lapse/translation between wall time and volume-average inference
light-cone kernels describing what each survey actually “hears” along its paths

Crucially, this is framed as a risk-and-audit program: either the universe supports a single effective clock standard (time as a justified compression), or the data prefer federated tempos—and in either case, the payoff is cleaner inference and clearer failure conditions.

Who this book is for

If you care about the philosophy of time but refuse hand-waving—and if you enjoy physics when it’s used as an honesty constraint rather than a metaphysical blank cheque—Changism is written for you. It’s a cross-field attempt to replace static pictures with a process-first ontology that still respects the best empirical structure we have.

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