When does the future become the past ???
Right… now!
At t=0.
There is a 1 planck time unit divide between the past and future.
The future and past are both relative to the present. The future never becomes the past. It’s a horizon.
Didn’t we cover this in GQ, in the past?
The future and the past are both illusions; there is only the now.
Or, the future is an illusion, and the past has some sort of instantiated and actualized reality (something like a cosmic all-encompassing historical record or video of events). In that case, the past is created from the now (where history is being written), and not from the future.
Or, the timeline from beginning to end is instantiated, fixed, and static; the illusion of time passing is merely our perspectives moving along it like the read head of a video player. In that case the past and future are merely part of an unchanging whole, defined as one or the other only by the perspective of the observer. Of which there could in theory be more than one!
Or, as a variant of the first option, time itself might be an illusion, and we might actually be frozen in an unchanging static existence, with only artificial memories of a past leading us to believe that time is moving into the future that will never come, like characters on the last page of a book.
Okay, now I’m confused. What part of those 25 answers didn’t satisfy him?
Starting a second thread on the same topic is redundant and confusing. I’m closing this thread - so it’s in the past… now.