Dan Falk here:
Last month, about 60 physicists, along with a handful of philosophers and researchers from other branches of science, gathered at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, to debate this question at the Time in Cosmology conference. The conference was co-organized by the physicist Lee Smolin, an outspoken critic of the block-universe idea (among other topics). His position is spelled out for a lay audience in Time Reborn and in a more technical work, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, co-authored with the philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who was also a co-organizer of the conference. In the latter work, mirroring Elitzur’s sentiments about the future’s lack of concreteness, Smolin wrote: “The future is not now real and there can be no definite facts of the matter about the future.” What is real is “the process by which future events are generated out of present events,” he said at the conference. More.
These people are mainly a summer phenomenon.
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Interesting quote: I’m writing a post for the Big Bang thread on this subject right now
Time is real and PHYSICAL. You can prove that yourself from Einstein’s own equations. See: “Beyond Einstein: non-local physics” by Brian Fraser (2015)
The free 22 page paper can be downloaded from: http://scripturalphysics.org/4.....stein.html The .html file gives a link to the .pdf file but the former has additional information, and many more links and insights.
Einstein’s concept of time was in conflict with leading philosophers concept of time.
Advances in quantum mechanics have validated the philosophers ‘psychological approach’ to understanding time and has invalidated Einstein’s relativistic time as to being the absolute frame of reference for reality.
For a deeper look at the hierarchy of time see the following video:
Quotes of note:
If “there can be no definite facts of the matter about the future” then we can’t say there will be a solar eclipse on Aug 21, 2017.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/S.....oogle.html