Past, present, and future coexist - Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains time. [4:14]

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like stuff like this because of how little I really understand about it. Does this suggest that there is no free will then? If everything that has happened or will happen all coexist, then doesn’t that mean that we’re like dancers moving along to some celestial choreography? Or is it something like where the “future” is just all the possible states that the future could take, but it doesn’t actually solidify til the “now” moment occurs, that sort of ever-present moment we all sort of presently exist in? But if 10 billion light years away an alien is pedaling in their bicycle towards me and their “now” is 200 years in my future, then the future has already been decided before my local “now” has occurred. If you could somehow have instantaneous communication across 10 billion light years, would everything just sync up and we’d both be in the same “now” moment?

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  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would it suggest no free will? To a certain extent, we’re reacting to events that we encounter, and how we react is based on our own physiology, which drives us to make choices. Whether those events happen in the past, present, or future, elsewhere, it’s when we encounter them now that matters. I think. I don’t know. 🤕🤯💥

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