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Why not block time?

Is time real? Are we just puppets living out a future already written? Marina Cortês explains why she thinks time is fundamental and that we don't live in a block universe.
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The future is time

Marina Cortês is one of a growing number of physicists who believe time is fundamental. We ask her about the alternatives theories to the block universe, where time comes first.
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Stuff happens: Time in a block universe

Physics tells us that we live in a block universe, containing all of the past and all of the future. What does this perspective mean for our understanding of time, events, and free will?
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Time to go retro

A model of backward causation in which the future affects the past could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity – and satisfy a challenge thrown down almost a century ago by Arthur Eddington.

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The cosmic family tree

Mapping the ancestral history of spacetime in an effort to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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Is gravity time's archer?

A new model argues the forces between particles in the early universe loosed time’s arrow, creating temporal order from chaos.
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