The scientific frameworks built by humanity—Newtonian mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory—are fundamentally described as scaffolding, serving as incomplete models that mistake human perception for cosmic law. These systems provide a geometry of events, as exemplified by Einstein’s space-time paradigm, but they remain human lenses attempting to map a reality that possesses intrinsic autonomy, independent of human observation or definition. The very inconsistency in the treatment of 'time' across different physical domains—quantum mechanics, relativity, and thermodynamics—underscores that the 'space-time' paradigm is not a settled truth, but a functional patchwork.