The Dissolution of the Block Universe

The Dissolution of the Block Universe argues that the block universe model collapses once time is understood as a generative process rather than a pre‑laid dimension. The paper shows that the block universe depends on an unexamined assumption: that the future already exists and the past remains available as a location. By grounding time in the ongoing production of relational structure, the paper demonstrates that a pre‑existing future is incoherent, the past is a record rather than a region, and the present is the active boundary where reality is generated. The block universe cannot accommodate this generative structure and therefore fails as an ontology. The paper dissolves the block model by revealing that geometry is retrospective and cannot substitute for the ontology of production. Time is not a dimension to be traversed; it is the unfolding of the world itself.