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Time Matters

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Block Universe Theory of Time

In Einstein's theory of relativity, time is woven together with the three dimensions of space. The initial conditions of the cosmos determine what comes later. Just weeks before his death in 1955, Einstein wrote,. for us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future, is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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