ElI5: What Einstein meant by “the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”.
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If I can put it in layman’s terms, as I understand it: I belive it was the comedian Steven Wright who said “time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once”.
well, that was stated as a joke but if you think about the “speed of light” as the speed of reality, what that means is that everything that ever did happen or will happen IS going on somewhere. We just don’t all find out about it at the same rate. A thing that happens near us, we know about it after a very short wait because its effects reach us fast. a thing that’s happening really far away, the sensory evidence of it only arrives later because it has to ripple outward for a long way. so time is really a built-in part of distance, and distance is just how long it takes to notice reality.
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