.....Thanks to the relativity of simultaneity, an event that lies in my past may yet be in your future, and vice versa: all that is required is that the event be far away, and that you and I be moving relative to one another. Many physicists, and quite a few philosophers, have come to see the four-dimensional spacetime of special relativity as evidence that past and future events are just as "real" as present events. Everything seems to be laid out all at once in a kind of block....
..........— Dan Falk (1966 - ), Canadian science journalist, broadcaster, author. In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension (2008).
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