I once had the existence of time conclusively disproved to me by that renowned temporal physicist, Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan. Back in the ’90s I was interviewing him for The Face magazine in Los Angeles. Apropos of nothing, and responding to a question only he had heard, he pointed to the clock on the wall of the studio.
“See that clock?” he said. “24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. 2+6 = 6, 6+0 = 6, and 6+0 = 6. That’s 666, which is the Devil. And the Devil is an illusion. So that means time is an illusion too.” Poor Dirty, the world is a poorer place without him.