In The Block Universe, Time Doesn't Pass
It often seems as though where we are "today" is present, and "yesterday" is past, and "tomorrow" is future.
It also seems the present moment changes too — after all, tomorrow it will seem as though tomorrow is present, and yesterday it appeared yesterday was present!
So from our perspective, it appears that time flows or passes. But in the block universe model, time doesn't flow.
In other words, in a block universe, there is no specific present moment, and "past" and "future" moments are relative.
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Would you time-travel just to make things as they are, if you could not change things as they are? Not really a question.
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