In 2089, a physicist proved that time doesn't flow forward. It radiates outward from a single point of observation. That point is here. That observer is you.
Dr. Lena Vasquez's equations showed that the arrow of time is not a law of physics. It is a consequence of measurement. Every conscious observation collapses infinite futures into one past. You are not moving through time. Time is being created by you.
On September 3rd, 2089, the LIGO array detected a gravitational wave unlike any before. It was not from a collision. It was a response. The waveform, when decoded, contained a single data point:
Your exact time. Right now. The moment you read this sentence. The universe encoded your current timestamp into a gravitational wave and sent it backward through 13.8 billion years of spacetime to arrive at a detector in Louisiana at the precise moment you scrolled here.