Abstract
The prevailing model of time as a linear, uniform, and universal dimension (t) is insufficient to resolve foundational paradoxes in physics and biology, from the arrow of time to the punctuated equilibria observed in the fossil record. This paper proposes a new model, Holographic Ternary Time (HTT), which posits that chronological time is a 1D projection of a higher-dimensional, volumetric temporal field. As such time is rather conditional and predicatively so, but relativistic only in its human perception.