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Then I have another question imlad Send a noteboard - 16/10/2012 05:52:33 PM
This one has been bothering me even more the more I think about it.

One of the fundamental things Greene explained in the second episode ("The Illusion of Time";) is that all points in spacetime are fixed.

He gives a visual analogy which I will try to describe.

We have Mr. Newspaper Reader sitting on a bench here on Earth, and across the Universe we have Alien Person standing still. Greene says that their "sense of now" moment is identical if they are not moving in relation to each other.

However, Alien Person hops on his bicycle and starts riding it AWAY from Earth. His personal moment of "now" will now correspond to a moment in Earth's past.

And when Alien Person turns his bike around and starts heading TOWARDS Earth, his personal moment of "now" corresponds with a point in the future.

All of these lead me to think that, without actually saying it this way, physicists and cosmologists are telling us that the future is fixed, that it is not fluid.

If all points in spacetime, past present and future, are fixed, then that means we really don't have any free will, and that fate and destiny (2 things science has renounced for centuries) are in fact real.

This really freaks me out. Please tell me I am wrong, and how I am interpreting this incorrectly.
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