I am measured in ticks and tocks, yet I cannot be held in your hands. I dictate your future and recall your past. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about the dimension that flows and is essential for the existence of events.
Answer
Chronology
Explanation
Time is a fundamental dimension that orders events and is not something that can be physically grasped.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Chronology.
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