What does it mean to say “Time is emergent”

To say time is emergent is saying that the characteristics of time like having an ever changing world, with an uncertain future is arising out of interactions at an elementary level.

In this theory the spontaneous absorption and emission of light forms the passage of time.

 

Light has spherical geometry and because an interior of a sphere is naturally three-dimensional this process will form the emergence of three dimensional space with one variable in the form of time.

 

We have the wave particle duality of light, with the light waves forming the uncertainty as the wave front radiates out. The particle characteristics of light and matter in the form of electrons represents the future continuously unfolding or coming into existence.   

Each one of the four fundamental forces has a part to play in this interaction that is unfolding relative to the two dimensional spherical surface. In our everyday life, this manifold or boundary condition is seen as the movement of positive and negative charge.