In April 2025, scientists reported a significant update: baryonic matter long thought to be “missing” in the observable universe has been located — in the form of ionized hydrogen gas stretched across the cosmic web.

While this solves a long-standing observational puzzle, it also opens deeper questions:

What if the reason we couldn’t detect this matter wasn’t just technological — but conceptual?

In our ongoing independent work under VoidPrakash, we explore the idea that time is not a universal axis but a frame- and metadata-dependent function. In this view, the "moment of observation" is constructed differently depending on motion, context, and information state — making some aspects of the universe effectively temporally occluded until certain parameters align.

Questions for fellow researchers:

• Could a non-linear, layered model of time better explain delays in detectability of certain phenomena?
• Do you see observational lag in cosmology as technological, or partly epistemic?
• What frameworks do you think are needed to explore the link between causality, visibility, and systemic metadata?

📄 Our comparative draft: Trapped in Time: The Cost of a Linear Assumption 📎https://osf.io/preprints/osf/d96u7_v1

Would love to hear your perspectives — especially from those working in astrophysics, philosophy of science, or time perception.