We’ve long thought that time has only one dimension. What if we’re wrong?

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What happened

A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality.But fresh insights involving black holes and quantum mechanics suggest it deserves another look…

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  • Reported by New Scientist and published Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:00:00 UTC.

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  1. Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years

  2. We’ve long thought that time has only one dimension. What if we’re wrong?

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