title: What is Time?: An exploration into the entity that defines our entire universe
author: Joe Lipscombe
description: Joe Lipscombe received his BA in Journalism from the University of Winchester. From here, he went on to write for several science and business publications across the globe before moving into politics, technology, and current affairs. His dissertation remains a product of his curiosity into the origins of the universe.
zlib_text: Thisness Presentism
  Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, 
  the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes. 
  Presentism is a view of time that captures a real and objective difference 
  between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of 
  reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable. The 
  book advances a new defence of presentism by developing a novel ontology 
  of thisness, combining insights about the nature of essence, the metaphysics 
  of propositions, and the relationship between true propositions and the 
  elements of reality that make them true, alongside insights about time itself. 
  It shows how, by accepting an ontology of thisness, presentists can respond 
  to a number of pressing challenges to presentism, including claims that 
  presentism cannot account for true propositions about the past, and that it 
  is inconsistent with the reality of temporal passage and the openness of