About — QuanTime

Quantime is a book about time — specifically, about the suspicion that time is the missing piece in our current picture of how the universe works. The Standard Model has glitches it cannot explain. String Theory has produced no experimental confirmation in over fifty years. Both frameworks treat time as a backdrop: a uniform stage on which physical events unfold. Quantime asks what happens if we stop assuming that.

The book does not claim to have solved physics. It claims that a careful reconsideration of time, taken seriously, may explain things the current frameworks cannot. The argument unfolds across the chapters, and the reader is invited to judge it as it builds.

Salar Golestanian left Iran in 1972, completed his undergraduate physics at the University of Surrey, and began a PhD in semiconductor physics at Brunel University in 1979, under Professor Hogarth. Two years in, his experimental results were turning negative, and the work could no longer be pursued honestly. He told Hogarth he was leaving. Hogarth, rather than letting two years of careful research disappear, suggested he write up the work as an MPhil. The MPhil was awarded in 1983. The PhD was not. Hogarth, who had warned him that dropping out would close the door on physics for good, was right.

Quantime is being released chapter by chapter, allowing each idea space to breathe before the next arrives. A book published all at once is either consumed or not consumed; a chapter that arrives on its own asks the reader to sit with it. The structure is part of the argument: time is the subject, time is also the medium.