The first part of Time and Prophecy reviews past and current theories in modern physics regarding the nature of Time. The author gives great importance to this issue since prophecy, and therefore Nostradamuswork, are impossible if time is evolving and the future does not exist. This has been the position of most physicists relative to describing the apparentflowof time, but in recent years another school of thought has arisen that proposes that all of Time already exists, as the fabric of the universe we refer to as spacetime. In this scenario prophecy could at least be considered since the future, however unknowable, already exists and therefore could beseen. The book takes a novel approach to the study of NostradamusCenturies and Presages. The author does not attempt to provide an interpretation of the prophetic quartets, but rather focuses on the cryptographic system that may have been employed in their construction and on the chronological format within which the work at