{"id":50249,"date":"2026-01-21T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50249"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:48:56","slug":"the-block-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/21\/the-block-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Block Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nAre we keeping time<br \/>\n(Do we have the beat)<br \/>\nOn the hour, do we chime<br \/>\n(Can we achieve the feat)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nUniversalism<br \/>\n(Eternalism)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nDid your space-time fabric<br \/>\n(Get wrinkled)<br \/>\nIron out the static<br \/>\n(Get sparkled)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nMiraculously<br \/>\n(Past, present, and future)<br \/>\nSimultaneously<br \/>\n(Last as they endure)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nUniversalism<br \/>\n(Eternalism)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nDid your space-time fabric<br \/>\n(Get a stain)<br \/>\nIron out the static<br \/>\n(Rid of strain)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nHow much does remain?<br \/>\nUniversalism<br \/>\n(Eternalism)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nThe Block Universe (Relativity)<br \/>\nAlbert Einstein\u2019s theories of relativity suggest a model called the Block Universe or Eternalism. <\/p>\n<p>*    Space-Time Fabric: In this view, time is a fourth dimension woven with the three dimensions of space into a &#8220;block&#8221; of spacetime.<br \/>\n*    Coexistence of Moments: According to this theory, the past, present, and future are all equally real and coexist simultaneously. The &#8220;flow&#8221; of time is considered a human illusion; we are simply experiencing different &#8220;slices&#8221; of the block.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/the-future\/\">The Future<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1] Are we keeping time (Do we have the beat) On the hour, do we chime (Can we achieve the feat) [Bridge] Universalism (Eternalism) [Chorus] Did your space-time fabric (Get wrinkled) Iron out the static (Get sparkled) [Verse 2] Miraculously (Past, present, and future) Simultaneously (Last as they endure) [Bridge] Universalism (Eternalism) [Chorus] Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[4200],"class_list":["post-50249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50274,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50249\/revisions\/50274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}