Time Tangent

In reply to Rosco


Who controls the past now controls the future, who controls the present now controls the past. 
    Eric Blair 


Two different camps 


Tensed Theory of time:  Time flows like a river . The past is set, and the future does not yet exist. The present  is the instantaneous point where the future becomes the past. This is the common perception of time. What is real: past,present or future is not clear. Time is like a tree. 


Tenseless Theory of time: Time is just like space, it is just another dimension.  Just as NY , London and Moscow all exist so to your birth, reading this sentence and your death are all equally real. It is called a  block universe. 


If the future is unreal then it can not effect the past . The  view on time held by many in the field of quantum physics is the block universe. Both are true, this allows for a weak determinism, which gives just enough room for free choice. 




Life is like a game of cards.  The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.  ~Jawaharlal Nehru