“The same should be true of time. Why is this instant, this now, privileged? Why is it any more real than the instant you experienced years ago, or will experience years in the future? It’s all there, all of time, already laid out in its entirety, our consciousness just isn’t designed to see it. Einstein wrote that for physicists like himself, the distinction between past, present, and future was only a stubborn illusion. And we’re talking about the entire life of the universe. From the big bang to the universe’s death, it’s all laid out.
