So says the block universe model of our world ... The third spatial dimension in the above diagram is left out — the length of the cuboid — and replace it with time. At one end of the cuboid ...

What’s the difference between the past and the future? Not a great deal, if you take a purely relativistic view of the universe, say George Ellis from the University of Cape Town in South Africa ...

The block universe just sort of exists a-temporally ... But if we flip this diagram on its head - reverse the flow of time, it still looks like two electrons bouncing off each other.

As the theory goes, the four-dimensional block universe contains everything that ever has and ever will happen at once. Time doesn’t actually pass, there are just specific moments and they’re ...

Brad Skow, in his book Objective Becoming, has analysed several different theories about time and said the most convincing is that of the block universe theory. Time does not pass, the theory ...

The resulting timeless cosmos is sometimes called a “block universe”—a static block of space-time in which any flow of time, or passage through it, must presumably be a mental construct or ...