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Evoltropic Time Evolution: A Dynamical Alternative to the Block Universe Interpretation of Relativity

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The Block Universe interpretation of relativity treats past, present, and future events as equally real within a four-dimensional spacetime manifold. Although often regarded as a natural consequence of relativity, the Block Universe remains an ontological interpretation
rather than an experimentally established physical law. This paper proposes an alternative framework called Evoltropic Time Evolution. The theory introduces the concept of evoltons, discrete units of physical evolution whose accumulation defines experienced time. Unlike the Block Universe, which regards temporal becoming as an illusion, the Evoltropic framework treats the present as a physically evolving state and the future as genuinely unrealized. The
framework is constructed to remain compatible with the experimentally verified predictions of General Relativity while providing a different interpretation of temporal flow, causality, and reality formation.

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