Do most physicists believe time flows?

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I am not asking the question as to whether or not time is real, I am asking the question as to whether or not time flows as in does physics favor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

OR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_presentism

OR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_block_universe

So are two different points in time both equally real? Or is time's flows just how we perceive it?

Also can time crystals exist if time didn't flow?

Is there a general consensus among physicists or are they divide on this?
 

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