There are clocks buried in the Earth that no one set.
Rings in trees. Echoes in coral. Frozen whispers in ice cores. Every layer a timestamp. Every shift a story. None of them written for us.
We read them like trespassers—quietly, guiltily—trying to make sense of a conversation we arrived too late to hear.
But time does not speak in words.
It speaks in pressure. In light. In absence.
It isn’t linear.
It folds into itself in places we still pretend are straight.
And somewhere between a blink and a century, something in us realises:
The future isn’t coming.
It’s remembering.
They say when you look through the James Webb telescope, you’re seeing light that left before we were born. But what they don’t say is: that light is still arriving. It never stopped. The event is over. The signal continues.
So when you see a star explode a billion years ago, it’s not the past.
It’s you… standing in its aftermath, only now catching up.
Time travel isn’t science fiction. It’s happening every time you open your eyes.
You are built of memories you never made.
Your DNA is a fossil.
Your atoms came from things that died before death had a name.
Your blood is older than your name.
And your mind?
It is just recent enough to think it’s original.
We live in buildings made of time.
We eat food stored in seasons.
We speak in languages grown from buried bones.
Even your breath—the carbon you exhale—was once part of something that stood taller than cities, and fell quieter than prayer.
Time isn’t passing.
It’s layering.
And in the deepest strata of it—
behind silence, behind memory, behind even the idea of “you”—
there may be something watching.
Something that doesn’t move.
It waits.
Not for us.
Not for meaning.
Just… until it’s heard again.
This is the horror:
Not that time will end.
But that it already did.
And we are just living out its echo.
Like a laugh still bouncing off canyon walls long after the voice has stopped.
And yet, even here—
even in this haunted fold of sequence and collapse—
we reach.
We build machines to mark it.
We send signals into blackness hoping something answers not today, but ever.
We write.
We record.
We name children after stars we’ll never touch.
And in doing so, we pretend time is something that listens.
Maybe it does.
Maybe this chapter reached you too late.
Or maybe it’s the first time it’s being read.
Or maybe you already knew every word, and this is just you…
remembering.
C. Lang writes from the fault line between memory and invention.
This is not a history of astronomy. It is a quiet record of all who have looked into the sky and tried to find themselves.
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