“Time is the Simplest Thing”—so claims the alien called “Pinkness” in Clifford D. Simak’s classic sci‑fi novel. That book was my first forbidden read from the adult shelves of our local library. (They really shouldn’t have connected the Juvenile Section to the Adult Sci‑Fi stacks with an unguarded staircase…)

But is time actually simple? Or is it the strangest mystery we live inside every day?

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