Morton identifies five properties that define hyperobjects. Viscosity: they stick to everything they contact, restructuring entities irreversibly. Nonlocality: they are distributed across many places simultaneously, manifesting differently at each location. Temporal undulation: they operate on timescales radically mismatched to human experiential time. Phasing: they appear and disappear from perception without regularity. Interobjectivity: they are constituted by relationships with other entities rather than existing independently. These properties interact to produce the characteristic experience of hyperobjects — ontological disorientation, the collapse of the subject-object distinction, and what Morton calls 'the end