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Best 1 The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí's most famous work depicts a landscape of melting clocks and distorted figures. It explores the fluidity of time and the irrationality of dreams. The meticulous, academic technique used to render such impossible imagery creates a 'hand-painted dream photograph' effect that remains the...

2 Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard set in an English country house, where scenes alternate between events in 1809 and investigations by present-day scholars. Its paired timelines gradually reveal connections involving a gifted student, her tutor, the estate's landscape, and a disputed episode in...

3 In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time is a seven-volume novel by French writer Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927. The work is among the longest novels in world literature, totaling roughly 3,000 pages in standard editions. It traces an unnamed narrator's experiences in French aristocratic society from...

4 Time dilation

Time dilation is a phenomenon predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity. It describes the difference in elapsed time measured by observers in different states of motion or experiencing varying gravitational potentials. Specifically, time appears to pass slower for an object moving at high velocit...

5 Gravitational time dilation

Gravitational time dilation is a consequence of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It describes how time passes differently depending on an object’s position within a gravitational field. The stronger the gravity, the slower time appears to flow relative to regions with weaker gravity....

6 Kali
Kali

Kali is a prominent Hindu goddess representing time, creation, destruction, and death, widely revered as a fierce manifestation of the divine mother, Shakti. She is commonly depicted with dark blue or black skin, multiple arms wielding weapons, a garland of severed heads, and a protruding tongue, of...

7 Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first performed in 1958 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The drama features a single character, Krapp, a sixty-nine-year-old man who listens to and records tape reels on his birthday, revisiting recordings of his younger self....

8 Relativity of simultaneity

The concept of relativity of simultaneity describes how time perception varies depending on an observer’s motion. It demonstrates that events considered simultaneous in one inertial frame are not necessarily simultaneous for a different observer moving relative to the first. This principle stems fro...

9 Janus
Janus

Janus was the ancient Roman god of beginnings, transitions, doorways, endings, time, and gates, uniquely Roman with no direct Greek equivalent. He is universally depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions—usually one toward the past and the other toward the future—allowing him to see bot...

Deity Time Roman State Beginnings Doorways
10 Braid, Anniversary Edition

Braid, Anniversary Edition is a 2024 remaster of Jonathan Blow's 2008 puzzle-platformer, adding repainted art, commentary, and new levels.

11 Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. Its story follows astronauts traveling through a wormhole in search of a habitable world as environmental collapse threatens Earth. Physicis...

12 The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe is a 1940 novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati. The story follows Giovanni Drogo, a young officer who is stationed at a remote, isolated border fortress. He and his fellow soldiers spend their days anxiously waiting for an impending invasion by the northern Tartars, a threat that c...

13 Time Exposed

Magritte presents a scene where time seems to have frozen or become tangible. By placing objects in impossible temporal relationships, he creates a sense of 'stilled' motion. The painting is a masterclass in creating a quiet, intellectual mystery that invites the viewer to question their own percept...

14 Touhou Luna Nights

Touhou Luna Nights is a challenging 2D metroidvania game created by Team Ladybug. It builds upon the established Touhou universe, offering intricate level design and demanding combat reminiscent of the popular bullet-hell shooter series. The game’s focus on precise movement and strategic dodging mak...

15 Johannes Fabian

Johannes Fabian is a Belgian anthropologist, born in 1937, who taught at the University of Amsterdam and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Katanga region of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is best known for critiques of how anthropological discourse constructs temporal dis...

16 Urashima Taro

Urashima Taro is the fisherman at the center of a Japanese folktale about supernatural travel and the passage of time. After helping a turtle, he is taken beneath the sea to the Dragon Palace, where he is entertained by Princess Otohime; when he returns home, he discovers that generations or centuri...

17 Owncloud
Owncloud
Free Plan Available From $5/user/month for the paid plan

OwnCloud is one of the original self-hosted cloud storage platforms. It provides a robust, enterprise-ready solution for organizations that want to host their own data. While Nextcloud (a fork of OwnCloud) has gained more popularity in recent years, OwnCloud remains a powerful and reliable choice fo...

18 Jane Guyer
Jane Guyer

Jane Guyer (1938–2018) was an American economic anthropologist renowned for her meticulous historical and ethnographic studies of monetary practices in West Africa. Her research primarily focused on the economic lives of people in Cameroon and Nigeria, examining how they navigate formal and informal...

19 The Loom of Years

The Loom of Years is a memory-weavers anthology featuring short stories that explore themes of time, memory, and human connection.

20 The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks is a 2014 novel by British author David Mitchell that blends literary fiction with speculative and science fiction elements. Structured across six interlinked novellas set over several decades, the book primarily follows the life of Holly Sykes from her troubled teenage years in the...

21 Timespinner

"Timespinner" is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Lunar Ray Games that incorporates metroidvania elements and pixel art visuals inspired by 16-bit classics. The story follows Lunais, a young woman who gains the ability to travel between time periods as she seeks revenge against the empire t...

22 Georges Gurvitch

Russian-born French sociologist (1894–1965) known for developing a pluralist sociology of knowledge and a theory distinguishing multiple qualitative social times.

Sociologist Time 20th Century Russian French Sociology Of Knowledge Microsociology
23 Tacita Dean

Dean's practice often involves slow, meditative explorations of time, memory, and the decay of media. She works across film, photography, and video, often using degraded or archival materials. Her portraits and landscapes feel suspended in a state of beautiful decay, inviting deep contemplation on w...

24 Chrono Clock

Chrono Clock is a Japanese romance visual novel developed by Purple Software and originally released in 2015, with an English localization published by Sekai Project. Its protagonist possesses a mysterious pocket watch that can reverse time by five minutes, a device that shapes both the school-life...

25 Manifold: Time

Manifold: Time is a 1999 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter and the first book in the Manifold trilogy. The story follows aerospace millionaire Reid Malenfant, who attempts to exploit near-Earth asteroids despite warnings about the imminent extinction of humanity. The narrative is deeply r...

26 Static Apnea

Static apnea is a freediving discipline measuring the maximum duration a breath-hold can be maintained with the face submerged in water, with world records exceeding 24 minutes under competition conditions.

27 FoxClocks
FoxClocks
Free Plan Available

FoxClocks shows times around the world at the bottom of your browser. Lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your status bar. Choose from a set of useful time formats or create your own - custom formats are easy to create and very fle...

28 Time Clicker

Time Clickers is a 2015 incremental shooter game developed by Proton Studio where players hire a team of voxel-art gunmen to destroy advancing blocks for currency.

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