Topics Time

Question Is time stationary, and we move along it? Or are we stationary, and time moves past us?

Accepted:
October 26, 2005

Comments

On one view, time is a lot like another dimension lying alonside the three dimensions of space. On this view time doesn't move: all times are equally real at all times, just as all parts of space are equally real from all places. But do we move along time? Well, we are in different places at different times, and of course we are at different times at different times.

According to another view of time, the present is privileged. As George Santayana once said, 'the present is like the fire running along the fuse of time'. On this view, it looks like we are moving along time, and so is the present.

Question Is time stationary, and we move along it? Or are we stationary, and time moves past us? Accepted:October 26, 2005

Question Is time stationary, and we move along it? Or are we stationary, and time moves past us?

Accepted:
October 26, 2005