CHRONOSCOPE
· time, at every scale
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Quantum · the very small
Delayed choice
When is a photon's path decided? A real single-photon experiment
The frozen universe
A universe that never changes — yet time appears inside it
Voyages · people and spacecraft
Mission clocks
How much younger the ISS, GPS or a Moon base makes you
Talking to Mars
Light delay, and what 'now' means across space
The 1 g voyage
How far a crew could go in a lifetime
Earth's energy budget
Sunlight in, infrared out: the arrow of time on a planet
Physics · the laws underneath
Flatland
Why extra dimensions are hard to picture — seven chapters
Field Ocean
Particles as ripples; light's clock never ticks
Clock Lab
The light clock and GPS corrections
Spacetime
Whose 'now'?, the twin paradox, and the pole and the barn
River
A black hole as space flowing inward
Black holes evaporate
Hawking radiation, and where the information goes
Entropy box
Why a gas never gathers itself back up
Two Films
Two time directions: the present stops predicting the future
Wormholes
Einstein and Rosen's bridge — and why you can't cross it
Time loops
Gödel's spinning universe, where you can meet your past
Cosmos · the universe as a whole
Cosmic timeline
From the Planck time to the last black hole
Stars forge the elements
Inside a dying star, and where every element came from
Expanding universe
Stand on any galaxy; the age of the universe
Cosmic horizons
How far we can see, and how far we can ever reach
Boot a Universe
Try other numbers of space and time dimensions
The Janus point
An arrow of time from gravity, pointing both ways
◌ Workbench · not mainstream physics
Exploratory ideas
This project's own challenges to mainstream physics, and yours
Dimension Map
Groups of dimensions, the same questions for each
+ Add your hypothesis
Put your own idea on the Atlas: what it predicts, what would kill it
Export your hypotheses
Save them to a file you can share
Import hypotheses
Load a file someone shared with you
How it all fits together
The big picture, in eight panels
Atlas
The holes in physics' account of time, and a century of attempts to fill them
Test bench
Every idea against the same five hurdles — argue with the scores
How sure are we?
How a claim earns the label 'established' — worked through on the expanding universe
◌ Workbench
Guide
How to use Chronoscope
What's here and how it works (press ?)
Concepts
The big ideas, with the evidence — and every lab that shows them
The maths
Every model's equations, constants and worked examples — each checked by the test suite
For teachers
Class links, completion codes and printable worksheets
Your passport
Tour stamps, missions, your prediction record — and save it to a file
Quizzes and review
Tour quizzes, and questions that come back to check what stuck
About Chronoscope
Who made it, how it was built, and why you can trust it
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