The "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" paper is mind-blowing.

Here's a little bit of what dripped out of my ears. Anything in it that is nonsense is mine. Everything good in it is owing to the original authors and the tradition who's ideas I tried to connect to it.

https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

The paper is at:

https://bitcoinlens.net/

@Jack K please correct me gently. I am probably over my skis trying to hang with you on physics.