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15CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the time phenomenon LET US GET RIGHT TO THE HEART of the matter. Although this chapter only addresses some very elementary princi-ples, I believe that the solution to most enigmas facing humanity canbe found in the nature of time. Acknowledging this will shed light onboth the mundane and exceptional situations, and will have anextraordinary impact on our approach towards the mysteries of theuniverse, which will increasingly lose their meaning. Let us assumefrom now on that the conceptualization of real time is manifolddepending on the property we want to express. In view of the difficultyin visualizing this concept, I will use various means to represent it. A parallel universe is merely a different time line. After all, time is three-dimensional! Space has three dimensions: length, width andheight. It is however, less obvious that time also has direction, densityand a present! What follows is a very simplified presentation of thesethree properties. They will be extensively discussed in another chapter. DIRECTION designates time as everyone pictures it: the trajectory that goes from past to future. Some call it the fourth dimension. Thepast constitutes our memories as our imagination constitutes thefuture. The transformation of matter and events describes the apparenttime arrow. However, in this case direction has a double arrow, whichexplains the existence of premonitions. Keyword: transformation. DENSITY is the eagerly anticipated encounter with the next great discoveries of fundamental science. What is time density? It is a time