Illusion of Time: Is the Future Already Written?

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In summary: Those paths exist regardless of what coordinate system you use to lay them out. But the paths are not pre-ordained - they are only made possible by the geometry. In summary, Brian Greene explains that in the model of the universe embraced by some physicists, the future is already written in the sense that there are paths that lead from the past, through the present, into the future, but these paths are not pre-ordained and are only made possible by the geometry of the universe. This does not imply that our future has happened already, but rather that our clocks are just out of sync relative to an alien's.
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If it does really like that, so is the concept of time traveling becoming possible ?
since we still on the same moment even in different position just the speed of light make us to having different point of view.
 
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DevonG said:
...Imagine painting a picture - with no perspective, no angle of view. Obviously such a thing can't exist...

Really? Don't we call that 'sculpture'?
 

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