Keith Wheeles

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The view that only the present moment is real is called presentism, sensibly enough. It can be contrasted with eternalism, the view that all moments of time are equally real, which we implicitly assumed in some of the discussion above. Eternalism is also called the block universe view, since it takes the real world to be the whole four-dimensional block of spacetime.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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