Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.
Given the progression of time and the existence of patterns, since emerges as a temporal marker indicating a point in time after which an event, condition, or state begins or has been true.
External reference — all senses of the word “since” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.