In fact, Einstein never proposed such a statement as a scientific thesis. Shortly before his death, while in Zurich, he learned of the death of his friend Michele Angelo Besso, and he wrote about it in a letter to his family, where he expressed his condolences:
“Besso left this strange world a little earlier than I did. It doesn't mean anything. People like us know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just a stubborn obsessive illusion.”
I'm not sure if he said that, but it's possible that we're talking about four-dimensional space. In this space, time is the fourth dimension. The whole fate of a person is represented in this space as a line and, as it were, exists “simultaneously”. But this simultaneity exists only in our imagination, since we “see” all the time from the outside.
When Michel Besso died in the spring of 1955, Einstein consoled his family and himself: “He left this strange world a little earlier than I did. It doesn't mean anything. For us, believing physicists, the differences between the past, present and future are just an illusion that we stubbornly cling to.”
It is difficult to guess what exactly Einstein meant in these words of consolation, but now they are taken at face value and build different theories of the block universe, which of course can not be.
In fact, there is matter and each point in the universe has its own present, so everything that is located at a sufficient distance from us is in the past, because we do not have the opportunity to be simultaneously at each point in space and all that we observe is the past of the universe.
On the other hand, the future is inevitable, because it is a continuation of the present. The present becomes both the past and the future, the past because it has already happened, and the future because it cannot stop.
Therefore, time must be understood as an inevitable change in the quantities taken in a limited amount.
It is only necessary to assume that in each sufficiently large limited volume in its present (since we cannot be in each such limited volume at the same time), approximately the same change in quantities occurs, so the present is approximately the same at any point in the universe, wherever we are, and therefore the same past and the same future, in the sense that quantities
Therefore, there is no difference from the point of view of these laws at what point in space and at what point in time we will be there, the future will always follow the present, and the present will always simultaneously move into the past and into the future.
And only a specific ratio of quantities will determine what it will be in the future, but it will be, there is no doubt about it, because in this world nothing disappears anywhere and nothing appears from anywhere, but only some quantities pass into other quantities.
This is the infinite world of the present.
Just because someone left this world doesn't mean they didn't exist. There remains only the eternal question of the soul.
But our souls are so closely intertwined in this world, about which Einstein said: “I am so merged with all living things that I do not care where in this endless stream someone's specific existence begins or ends… I'm just a tiny piece of nature…”
Only a system of correspondences can exist. The correspondence is independent of time and space. The materialists thought that only matter could “be”. This misconception arose from such properties of matter as direct observability and measurability due to the low frequency of its changes. Time and its attributes-present, past, and future-exist only in the informational field of consciousness. Like space, time is entirely speculative. There are only time scales, and only because people have decided so. Matter changes, transforms, transforms. Therefore, it is also difficult to define the concept of “being” through it. Information changes even faster than matter, and information is the very essence of change. Invariably, there is only a correspondence of information and matter (theory and practice) in the present, in the past, and in the future. This is reflected in the immutability of the laws of physics. Although physicists modestly call this immutability an assumption or postulate. Without this postulate, it would be difficult for physicists to reason. And Einstein, probably, also proceeded from it in his reasoning, which is why he came to this conclusion.
Sad, gentlemen, sad. I read all 100 responses and didn't find any correct ones. Why write if you don't know?
In general, he had a lot of discussions on this topic, and this is not the best quote from them. I would have chosen another one: “God doesn't play roulette.” In general, he assumed that all events are deterministic. For example, we can use the current state (location, momentum, and so on) of certain atoms to predict their past state and predict the future, if we have enough computing power. That is, theoretically, we can learn the past and future from the present. Well, or the existence of the present already determines the future and the past. There are quite a lot of interesting conclusions, such as saving information and other things. Einstein often butted heads with the devotees of quantum mechanics on this topic. So far, the dispute has not been closed, and this is a huge layer of modern physics.
Because phenomenologically, i.e. from the point of view of the observing consciousness, it is impossible to separate them. Let's say that I now imagine my future in the present, based on the experience of my past. Where am I at this moment?
Physically, obviously, where he was. Phenomenologically, that is, consciously, I draw out the experience of the past in the present and, based on it and the present moment, try to imagine the future, which depends on where I was and where I am now. In this sense, all three points are the same.
Good afternoon. I will explain in the simplest language how the past, present and future exist simultaneously. In the evening, you saw the twinkle of stars, starfall, moonlight, etc. All the phenomena that occur in deep space and are visible to us with the naked eye – all this has already happened in the past and reached the speed of light (300,000,000 m/s) only at that moment of your observation. Perhaps this star is no longer there, but its twinkle reaches us through a distance equal to a million light-years. But you perceive it as the present, happening at the moment. And with regard to the extinguished star, the moment when you saw the last flicker that has reached you is already in the future.
These words of A. E. should be viewed in the context of his writing – namely, on the occasion of the death of his friend, perhaps as a condolence, or consolation for the family members of the deceased. I don't think it's a good idea to give it the meaning of a “physically meaningful statement”.
More fully in the letter, this statement reads as follows::
“Right now, he left this strange world a little earlier than me. It doesn't mean anything. People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just a persistent illusion.”
In a way, he's right. In a sense, those who think differently are right: the present is a momentary slice between the past and the future. This statement of his does not carry any formula definition.
I think what was meant was that there is only one particular version of the present that corresponds to a certain future, and that, in turn, corresponds to a single version of the past: in a second, the future will begin, and the past will end a second later.
Because he believed that time is an illusion that exists only in the human brain. Time is not observed. Humanity invented it to describe something. It is not possible to predict or measure the exact time of any event
The past and the future can and do exist only in the present, and at the same time they do not exist in the present.
The present is that speculative facet of the trinity of existence, where the past can no longer be considered the past, and the future is still in zero position in reality.
I think Einstein, in his theory of relativity, had in mind exactly this point, to which all our speculative ideas about it, divided into
past > present > > future.
Einstein imagines this point as past, present, and future.
The point where everything exists and doesn't exist at the same time.
This is the central semantic statement of the theory of relativity.
This meaning is reflected in the law of dialectics on the contradictory interaction of identical parties, in which the contradictory interaction implies precisely this logical paradox – the inseparability of being and non-being.
This meaning is also reflected in the idea of the trinity of God.
The great Einstein was not only a genius of our time, but also just a wise man who understood the truth.
He understood that to say such a thing about only the laws of nature of the earth is very fantastic. But when he saw for himself that every time he immersed himself in his soul, in that inner world, he touched the whole universe, where there are completely different laws and other possibilities, he simply shared his impressions, feelings and sensations.
Because our souls, they are immortal and their home is a place where vreneni does not exist and there is no physical body, as well as a choice. Our souls leave this physical world and return home, where there are no such three dimensions as on earth.
In our physical world, the soul receives three dimensions in which it lives its life. This is the time, this is the body, and this is the choice. Only through these values can a person learn and raise or lower their spiritual growth and vibrations. If there are no such values, then nothing will happen. There is no need to rush anywhere and nothing is as expensive as time, choice and body.
Our inner world is an opportunity to see things based on past experience, being in the present moment, to imagine what we want in the future .
It is there, in our own view, that we can do this. Making a wish is exactly how it can be fulfilled. Only a man can use all the gifts of God so skillfully that he can be Divine himself!
Therefore, it is in vain to build theories and various guesses, it really is and it is indisputable. But only in order to understand this and understand the essence of things, we will have to recognize the existence of other parallel worlds and much more that we as humanity are not yet ready for…
As far as I know the texts of Einstein's articles on both SRT and GR, Einstein never spoke about the simultaneity of the past, present and future. He discussed in great detail the concept of simultaneity, as one of the key concepts of the theory of relativity, the simultaneity of two events at different spatial points! But in this context, it never occurred to him to claim that the present, past, and future were simultaneous. The author of the question apparently meant that the Minkowski space, as a visual geometric illustration of SR, and in combination with the pseudo-Riemannian metric and GR, in one graphic picture depicts all time-like intervals, from the past, to the present and future, separated by a light cone from space-like intervals of simultaneous events! So, any graphs of classical Newtonian mechanics also contain all the moments on the time axis, from the past, to the present and future! Einstein has nothing new in this sense, except that in Newtonian graphs the role of the light cone was played by the plane of simultaneity, which gave simultaneity an absolute status.
Adhering to the knowledge from the experience of enlightenment, I can tell you what this statement of Einstein looks like when the past, future and present are one, through my experience (being) in this state. For ordinary earth perception, time is a certain flow, extension, process. A person (as an example), his body is changing (aging) every second, every moment. And every moment that follows, “you” are no longer the same person. The mind records in memory (this is such a property of the mind as storage) these segments in a certain extent – in time. And what has already “happened” to the person (I) looks past, remains in memory. The mind can “move” from each conscious fixation, remembering the past, or it can move into the “future”, which is not yet available for consciousness, but it exists. Otherwise, there will not be a complete picture in which the mind lives. When I have had an experience (of enlightenment), when the mind stops clinging to the past, the future also disappears, and there is an emphasis on the present. The present itself is not felt in life, because the mind itself avoids it. After all, the mind itself (personal) exists only by moving from remembering the past and moving into the future: remembering and dreaming. The moment there is no memory, the “future” suddenly disappears, they are a product of the personal mind. And suddenly the present is revealed, which it turns out fills everything around and has always been here, including both the past and the future. And this is an eternity. For me, the term “eternity” is not associated with time, as is commonly believed when they want to show archaism and antiquity. Eternity is neither a process nor an extension. Eternity is a given, an infinity, such an expanded reality from nowhere to nowhere. From zero to infinity. On its own. This is what is all Non-Being and Being at the same time. So in this state of mind, when you are in the present, you see that there is no past and no future. They are one with the present. A person in his mind (personal picture of life) simply does not have enough coverage of processes, as with weak RAM and computer processor, as well as because of clinging to the past, which generates movement into the future, in an instant rushing through the “point” of the present-“here and now”. And as soon as death occurs-a break with the senses (limiters of perception, such dispensers), so immediately the whole REALITY will fill the consciousness in an instant and SUDDENLY everything will appear in the present time. And there is no other way in this world, because all dreams.
Eternalism This should mean that the time dimension is only one of the four physical dimensions that are similar in properties, that future events “already exist” and that objectively there is no “flow” of time. This idea is sometimes referred to by the terms “block-time” or “block-universe”, because this theory describes spacetime as a static, unchanging “block”, as opposed to the traditional worldview: three-dimensional space over time…
Einstein considered space-time to be inseparable into time and space. You can imagine space-time as a film on which all the events of the past and future already exist. And, a person, during his life, turns out to be consistently in different frames, but cannot jump over frames. But, an outsider, a hypothetical observer, for example, from the fifth dimension, sees all the frames in their entirety. But, at the same time, it can not squeeze into the film, that is, become a participant in the film.
In a person's life, however, the law of causal relationships applies. This is time in the human sense.
There is only a moment between the past and the future, it is called life! In general, time is the 4th dimension, which has its own properties and everything in the world is relative. Here we look at the sun and see it for real, but in fact we see it as it was 8 minutes ago. With stars and galaxies in the same way, we look where they have long been gone, and maybe they are already dead.
Past, present, and future exist simultaneously, because time-space-matter = one and the same thing. It is a continuum in which everything is interdependent.
A good explanation for this concept came up with a British physicist, Julian Barbour: he proposed to draw an analogy between what we call “moments” and integers: 1,2,3,4, and so on — up to infinity.
Einstein's theory of Relativity depicts time as another dimension, so it can be roughly plotted on the number axis.
And, just as integers on a mathematical scale all exist at the same time, any time interval (whether it is from the past, “present” or future, that is, whether it is closer to the beginning of the axis or further away — it does not matter) �always exists.
I think that he took the present moment of time as an infinitesimal quantity, then in this case the past and future, if we take their nearest extreme infinitesimal moments to the moment of the present, coincide with the moment of the present. This is the continuity of time.
So that this statement does not look like a paradox, we need to consider time not as a vector, but as a structure with a fixed topology.
One example of such a structure is offered by the science of folding https://tss.ruslo.pro/ns.pdf. In it, time is considered as a three-dimensional body of the process life cycle: a kind of egg, the” yolk “of which is represented by past events, the” protein ” by probable events of the future, and the shell is a collection of all possible bifurcation points at which the process ends, either becoming another process or breaking up into parts.
In this time-structure, there is a constant expansion of the core-past due to the fixation- “solidification” of those future options that have been realized. This expansion will end with the “yolk” reaching the shell and completing the process in its previous form.
However, all the events of this time – realized, possible and not realized-still remain in their places and exist “simultaneously”, i.e., in the time structure of one particular process.
Although, if we talk specifically about Einstein, then I am more inclined to the already given answer with the quote “God does not play roulette” – I think that this version is closer to the truth.
Einstein reasoned this way and spoke about it because of his own theories, that approaching the speed of light slows down time.
Albert Einstein used to say that-People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just stubbornly persistent illusions.
According to his theory of relativity, if one of the two twins remains on Earth, and the other flies into space at a speed close to the speed of light, then, returning home in 10 years, the astronaut who remained young will find his elderly brother on Earth. According to Einstein, for a body moving at the speed of light, time slows down, or even flows in the opposite direction, and this feature makes it possible to move along the time axis.
Einstein didn't know what he'd done.
According to the classical understanding of time, the entire universe simultaneously moves in time.
But Einstein argued that this is not so, that at high speeds time is bifurcated — one system moves and lives at one speed, the other — at another.
But in 1922, the French philosopher Henri Bergson pointed out to him that the multiplicity of times is an illusion, there is only one real time and in theory it goes only in a fixed frame of reference, where there is a person.
From the theory of relativity, everyone remembered the so-called twin paradox.
But it follows from the conditions of the theory that the movement is relative, and who flies away from whom is indifferent.
If you imagine that the rocket on which the second twin flew away is the reference point, and the Earth moves away from it with super-speed, then the brother who remains on Earth will be young, and the one in the rocket will age. These are just logical dead ends.
In the theory of relativity, the pictorial technique of perspective, its dynamic analog, is applied.
A direct perspective is an image on a two-dimensional plane of three-dimensional space.
When one artist draws a portrait of a person who is standing next to him, and another who is 200 meters away.
And there the artist also draws both of them.
The first one will draw “their “person big, and” someone else's ” person small.
And the other artist is exactly the opposite.
According to Einstein, it turns out that the one in the distance is a dwarf.
But he is an ordinary person, and his size only shows the distance from him.
So the theory of relativity shows only the difference in velocities and nothing more.
As we approach the speed of light, time in the formulas seems to slow down.
But only mathematically.
Mathematical calculations are a way of depicting reality, but not reality itself.
To physically exist, you must be present in our world for some time. There can't be an object without length, width, and height, and there can't be an object without a “duration”?
An “instantaneous” object, that is, one that does not exist for at least some amount of time, does not exist at all.
Past and future do not take up time in the present-nihilism. It is impossible to quantify the duration of “present time”: any amount of time that we call “present time” can be divided into parts-past, present, and future.
If the present lasts, say, a second, then this second can be divided into three parts: 1 part will be the past, 2-the present, 3-the future. A third of a second, which we now call the present, can also be divided into three parts. This can continue indefinitely. Therefore, the present does not really exist, because it does not continue in time. Universal nihilism uses this argument to prove that nothing exists at all.
Because it does exist, but at different points in space. So, for us now, “there are” stars that gave off light millions of years ago. We see constellations, but we do not see their present, but their ancient state. At the same time, there is also the present state of the cosmos, but it will be possible to learn it only in the distant future. Even if the floor of the starry sky was swept away by some unprecedented force, we do not know about it now, but we see the old serene picture, where everything is in its place.
Also, there are places in the universe, at a distance of 4 billion light-years from us, which can NOW observe the birth of our planet. And much closer, the places from which your birth is “visible”.
Thus, in the Universe now there is a past, present and future, but there is no one who could see it and it is determined by the finiteness of the speed of light.
Einstein always had a volume of The Secret Doctrine of Helena Blavatsky on his desk. This means that he was familiar with the esoteric teaching. And if so, then he knew that on a certain higher than physical plane of existence ( consciousness) there is no time. And since there is no time, which is a sequence of events, then there is no division of existence into the past and present. and the future. They exist there at the same time.
There is only one tool that allows you to check this – this is the ability of a person to transfer his consciousness to this plane and act there.
I don't know if Einstein actually said this, but this phrase reflects the essence of the Theory of Relativity, which Einstein created in 1905 and supplemented in 1915.
Einstein's bold idea was that our three-dimensional space and time are a single object, which can be called space-time.
And if in space we are well able to move back and forth, then in time we move as on an escalator, evenly in one direction, but there is both the front of the escalator and the back at the same time? So is the time as well. At the same time, there is a past, a present, and a future.
“Why did Einstein say that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously?” Einstein loved the game of confusion, he needed as much fog as possible to deceive. Incomprehensible things attract attention. This is just ordinary PR. Looking for meaning in such misunderstandings is a waste of your personal time, a distraction of your brain activity from pressing tasks.
Actually, you should ask Einstein himself. But why not discuss the concept itself?
This question does not specify what is actually being asked. It probably means that this is already clear. But this is not the case.
Existence begins to be recognized in the subject directly as soon as it appears. With the development of intelligence, as well as obtaining a certain set of knowledge, the subject begins to reason not only about his own existence, which he has always been directly aware of, but also about the existence of objects. Say, other people, animals, plants, nature, the universe, being, and so on. Of course, he can talk about them, just as he knows both the past and the future. But they are not supposed to exist at the present moment.
The past, present and future can be considered to exist simultaneously only from a rather special point of view, in line with a certain worldview concept (say, GR or SRT). If you imagine an observer who is outside of our space-time world, then he can easily observe all of time in its entirety (well, or as far as his gaze will suffice), and for him all the observed moments of time will be merged.
For the human being, however, only the present moment exists in reality, the past is in personal memory or tradition, the future in fantasy or speculation.
Einstein's statement is really nothing more than a kind of mind game.
They exist simultaneously. If you take into account a small period of time: a second. The second has already come and gone and was real for a second. If you take a longer period, then it is also short relative to eternity. As the song says: There is only a moment between the past and the future, which is called life. This moment is the present, which we cannot slow down. Variations in behavior do not affect the passage of time.
If you take a person, then memory is responsible for the past, imagination for the future. But it all comes together at one point, in the present. It turns out that a person lives in three worlds at once-past, present and future.
Everything you do in this second is already past, present and future. What you did will be reflected in all times. After all, we ourselves lay down by our actions both the memory(past) and the future( what will happen after our action) and the present.
Everything is elementary. This question does not mean a physical property of space-time, but the subjective quality of the individual's subconscious mind to analysis, from the tip of the neuron to perception and back (this also “takes” time)… Only a living, heuristic consciousness can sense the passage of time. For the rest of the unconscious, it basically does not exist. By the way, there are people with diseases of the brain areas responsible for the ability to sense time (distortion) , they simply do not realize it… This is the irony of BEING.
Everything is very simple, although it will be difficult to understand with a mind that is used to doing calculations on paper. The universe is a continuum that is constantly in motion, forming connections with itself. It is impossible to fix in any of the moments, except in the calculation on paper. There are conditional reference systems such as space-time, which are also constantly in motion and forming connections. Already formed connections have not gone away, the result is the moment now, while future connections are defined (like a step, a raised foot) but have not come at the moment. For the conscious person, this cannot be understood, since everything is in a state of quantum entanglement with everything, in terms of entropy. Well, as a bonus, the aware person is aware of events in the past.
Because Albert understood the meaning of this moment… The past, present, and future are all at the same point… Only a small number of people can see everything at one point… take, for example, a matchbox , it always exists simultaneously in space. To see all its faces, we need to rotate it ,which means we need to spend some time… But it always stays at the same point.. this is just a person who takes time to understand the whole picture of what is happening…
What exactly he meant – to say exactly, you need to know the context. In a sense, they are simultaneous because they are really just modes of thinking that exist only in the” eternal present ” of consciousness. Perhaps Einstein simply perceived the world as enlightened, timeless, that is, all at once as a single connected organism.
For physics, by and large, time does not exist – there is only the distance between events in space-time, there is a certain orientation of intervals, which is convenient for practical purposes to represent as a time axis, but qualitatively a moment in the past or future does not differ from observation in any way – except for the position of the observer. And for physical laws at the micro level, it doesn't even matter whether time flows in one direction or the other: interactions are symmetric along this axis. The fact of being present at a particular point in the development of a system is an entirely subjective phenomenon, just like being present at a certain point in space (see the Principle of Locality). And what is subjectivity – physics is still powerless to answer. In the era of quantum mechanics and relativity, physics simply encountered this awareness for the first time.
I think the answer is simple – because someone (or something) who has a present always has some past and necessarily has some future. Nothing comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere. These three concepts are interrelated and are elements of a single whole. This statement borders on the border of philosophy and physics, and is directly related to the definition of the first cause, the theory of causality
I don't like it when they give examples of their own mystical experience, although I myself have a lot of experience in meditation and prayer. Here is a real model of the past, present, and future. Let's say our universe performs a cyclical process. For example, explosion-expansion-compression-explosion-expansion-compression… Let's take the simplest loop model – a carousel. If you have driven a full cycle on the carousel, then where are you? In the past? In the present? In the future? You are at this point in the present, have been in the past, and will be in the future. That is, both the past, present, and future are at the same point. But more seriously, the past always leaves its information trail in space…As for the future, first the thought is born, then the “drawing” and only then the future. The “blueprint” information is also stored in the Universe information field. Thus, the trace of the past, the project of the future and our present live simultaneously.
I wonder what will give you the answer to this question and how you will use this information. Okay.
Albert Einstein, like many recognized geniuses, often said that their ideas do not really belong to them, and this information came to them “from outside” and understand it as you want. Vivid examples are N. Tesla or Mendeleev, who saw the well-known table in a dream. If you're interested, read more, and I'll get to the point in the meantime. The whole life and work of these geniuses is imbued with mysticism, individuality and willpower – only fools will deny this. Given that these people had access to knowledge completely beyond the reach of ordinary minds, we can only assume that Albert Einstein's consciousness reached a level where ordinary perception of reality ceased to affect his mind and he went beyond it. Those few who really understood and felt it are unlikely to run around with posters and fanfares informing the whole world that they have discovered something beyond the control of an ordinary person.
In any case, if you answer this question more specifically, I will only tell you my picture of the world, which, quite possibly, will become just an anchor for you and block the opportunity for you to describe it as YOU feel. Given that the descriptive processes of our reality are completely individual for all people, you, as a person asking questions, should understand and feel this yourself. Develop yourself, your consciousness, and perhaps one day such questions in your head will run out. What I wish you quite sincerely.
Look around you. Do you see the time anywhere? It is the time and not a clock with numbers or hands? Can you feel time, breathe it in, trip over it? People can only be aware of time, measure the duration of material processes and events with it, use it in calculations, divide it into intervals of the past, present and future, and so on. That's the trick. Temporal concepts of the present past and future exist, including simultaneously, only inside our consciousness.
Einstein was strongly influenced in his youth by Kant's Critique of pure reason, which, among other things, proves the subjectivity of our perception of time – from the past to the future in the form of a certain arrow. This means that in reality there can be no division between the past and the future, but everything can exist simultaneously. In general, it was one of the books that prompted Einstein to study the nature of time/space and their relationship to each other.
The consequence was the creation of special relativity, then Einstein's former teacher, mathematician Hermann Minkowski, proposed a geometric representation of the kinematics of relativity theory to his student, introducing a four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space (now known as Minkowski space). In this model, time and space are not different entities, but interrelated dimensions of a single space-time. Minkowski declared: “From now on, time in itself and space in itself become an empty fiction, and only their unity preserves the chance of reality.”
In general, this argument was used by Einstein.
Then the following happened. Around 1977-78, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev unexpectedly managed to observe the past, present, and future of space objects simultaneously and found that the picture of the world is adequate to the Minkowski geometry, which, unfortunately, was very briefly reported in his articles. Naturally, several scientific groups rushed to check such sensational observations and confirmed them. Although official science still remains silent, neither for nor against. Here is the original article by Kozyrev, I hope you will understand. He knew more than he said, and talked more than he wrote. I was hoping to write a book where all these points will be analyzed in detail. I didn't have time.
These observations can be considered a physical confirmation that the past, present and future are a single conglomerate. And philosophy is not an assistant here, there are no more Kants, and others do not pull)
Einstein probably learned this from the Vedic book Bhagavad-gita.
There, in the text of Chapter 7 26, it is said, ” O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened in the past, is happening now, and will happen in the future.”
One might argue that God simply remembers the past, sees the present – but how does he see the future?!
Only if it already exists.
It turns out that in some absolute system (for example, spiritual) it all exists invariably: past, present, and future.
Because the past, present and future are located at the same point, or rather in a person. If you want to know the world, know how a person works. A computer, just a rough approximation. Being in the here and now, a person has a database of the past, his computing system performs algorithmization of the future based on his experience of the past and present, so the database already has data and the future, here you can relate the concepts:fate, intuition, deja vu, etc. If you follow the biographies of scientists and draw a parallel with their research, you will find a very close connection.Well, according to your faith…depending on what inner essence will outweigh, for someone time will be linear, for someone three-dimensional, someone in general will hang in eternity))) Because at the gene level, a person has information about the entire period of life and development of a person, and most likely about what will happen. So a person being in the here and now has a decent list of ancestors before him and if the family does not stop at him, then after him, so the past, present and future are also in one moment.
Because yesterday, today, and tomorrow do not exist by themselves, but in our minds. What is considered present and what is considered past depends on the scale of consciousness and the process under consideration. For some, the present is a brief moment, less than a second, but for someone who thinks on a historical, geological, or even astronomical scale, the present can span entire epochs. For Einstein, who thought on a universal, global scale, time took on a completely different meaning, different from ordinary understanding: this is not just a virtual scale from the “past” to the “future” (whose past and whose future?), but energy levels of physical processes of different scales.
When the context of a particular statement is not known, it is very difficult to interpret it correctly. Nevertheless, I would venture to suggest that when Einstein spoke about the time of occurrence of an event, he most likely meant the relativity of a given moment of the present for different simultaneously existing observers.
In other words, the same event for observer A has already occurred and remains in the past, observer B is sure that this event is happening right now – in the present, and observer C expects this event to occur in the future. In other words, it turns out that this event exists immediately in the past, in the present, and in the future. In this sense, it is perfectly acceptable to say that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.
On the other hand, the spatially similar linearization of time and its threefold division into past, present, and future are just a feature of human consciousness. In fact, there are really only successive moments of the present time of zero duration, separated by time intervals of finite duration. That is, the present moments of the object being observed at this moment alternate with time intervals of a certain duration, during which the object is temporarily unavailable for observation.
St. Augustine put it best about the illusory nature of the past and future when he asked the following question and answered it himself: “If the future and the past really exist, then I would like to know where they exist. … wherever they exist, they no longer constitute the future or the past, but the present.
So, wherever that which exists exists, it cannot exist otherwise than in the present” (Confessions, Book Eleven, ch. 18).
And further: “Now it becomes clear to me that neither the future nor the past exists, and that it is not precisely expressed about the three tenses when they say: past, present, and future; but it would be more accurate, it seems, to express it like this: the present of the past, the present of the future. Only in our soul are there three corresponding forms of perception, and not somewhere in the indus (i.e., in objective activity). Thus, for the present of past objects, we have memory, or remembrance (memoria); for the present of present objects, we have sight, view, intuition (intuitus); and for the present of future objects, we have hope, hope (exspectatio).
… the future should not be taken as already existing (jam esse), and the past should not be taken as previously existing (adhuc esse)” (Confessions, Book Eleven, Chapter 20).
Thus, since only a recurring but always new moment of the present is real, the question of the simultaneous existence of the past, present, and future becomes meaningless altogether.
You understand that the past, present, and future cannot exist simultaneously. If someone does not agree with this statement of the question, they should advise how to distinguish them in the present?
The world is an Atom and its repetitions, that is, the world is indivisible. If there is time, then past-present-future, but, surprisingly, future-present-past. There is nothing between the past and the future (Bishop of Hippo).
As for me, this is due to the theory of parallel universes and the space-time continuum. For both he and his student and follower, Stephen Hawking, spoke about it . They also say that time is a relative concept.
In fact, Einstein never proposed such a statement as a scientific thesis. Shortly before his death, while in Zurich, he learned of the death of his friend Michele Angelo Besso, and he wrote about it in a letter to his family, where he expressed his condolences:
“Besso left this strange world a little earlier than I did. It doesn't mean anything. People like us know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just a stubborn obsessive illusion.”
I'm not sure if he said that, but it's possible that we're talking about four-dimensional space. In this space, time is the fourth dimension. The whole fate of a person is represented in this space as a line and, as it were, exists “simultaneously”. But this simultaneity exists only in our imagination, since we “see” all the time from the outside.
When Michel Besso died in the spring of 1955, Einstein consoled his family and himself: “He left this strange world a little earlier than I did. It doesn't mean anything. For us, believing physicists, the differences between the past, present and future are just an illusion that we stubbornly cling to.”
It is difficult to guess what exactly Einstein meant in these words of consolation, but now they are taken at face value and build different theories of the block universe, which of course can not be.
In fact, there is matter and each point in the universe has its own present, so everything that is located at a sufficient distance from us is in the past, because we do not have the opportunity to be simultaneously at each point in space and all that we observe is the past of the universe.
On the other hand, the future is inevitable, because it is a continuation of the present. The present becomes both the past and the future, the past because it has already happened, and the future because it cannot stop.
Therefore, time must be understood as an inevitable change in the quantities taken in a limited amount.
It is only necessary to assume that in each sufficiently large limited volume in its present (since we cannot be in each such limited volume at the same time), approximately the same change in quantities occurs, so the present is approximately the same at any point in the universe, wherever we are, and therefore the same past and the same future, in the sense that quantities
Therefore, there is no difference from the point of view of these laws at what point in space and at what point in time we will be there, the future will always follow the present, and the present will always simultaneously move into the past and into the future.
And only a specific ratio of quantities will determine what it will be in the future, but it will be, there is no doubt about it, because in this world nothing disappears anywhere and nothing appears from anywhere, but only some quantities pass into other quantities.
This is the infinite world of the present.
Just because someone left this world doesn't mean they didn't exist. There remains only the eternal question of the soul.
But our souls are so closely intertwined in this world, about which Einstein said: “I am so merged with all living things that I do not care where in this endless stream someone's specific existence begins or ends… I'm just a tiny piece of nature…”
Only a system of correspondences can exist. The correspondence is independent of time and space.
The materialists thought that only matter could “be”. This misconception arose from such properties of matter as direct observability and measurability due to the low frequency of its changes.
Time and its attributes-present, past, and future-exist only in the informational field of consciousness. Like space, time is entirely speculative. There are only time scales, and only because people have decided so.
Matter changes, transforms, transforms. Therefore, it is also difficult to define the concept of “being” through it.
Information changes even faster than matter, and information is the very essence of change.
Invariably, there is only a correspondence of information and matter (theory and practice) in the present, in the past, and in the future. This is reflected in the immutability of the laws of physics. Although physicists modestly call this immutability an assumption or postulate. Without this postulate, it would be difficult for physicists to reason. And Einstein, probably, also proceeded from it in his reasoning, which is why he came to this conclusion.
Sad, gentlemen, sad. I read all 100 responses and didn't find any correct ones. Why write if you don't know?
In general, he had a lot of discussions on this topic, and this is not the best quote from them. I would have chosen another one: “God doesn't play roulette.” In general, he assumed that all events are deterministic. For example, we can use the current state (location, momentum, and so on) of certain atoms to predict their past state and predict the future, if we have enough computing power. That is, theoretically, we can learn the past and future from the present. Well, or the existence of the present already determines the future and the past. There are quite a lot of interesting conclusions, such as saving information and other things. Einstein often butted heads with the devotees of quantum mechanics on this topic. So far, the dispute has not been closed, and this is a huge layer of modern physics.
Because phenomenologically, i.e. from the point of view of the observing consciousness, it is impossible to separate them. Let's say that I now imagine my future in the present, based on the experience of my past. Where am I at this moment?
Physically, obviously, where he was. Phenomenologically, that is, consciously, I draw out the experience of the past in the present and, based on it and the present moment, try to imagine the future, which depends on where I was and where I am now. In this sense, all three points are the same.
Good afternoon. I will explain in the simplest language how the past, present and future exist simultaneously.
In the evening, you saw the twinkle of stars, starfall, moonlight, etc. All the phenomena that occur in deep space and are visible to us with the naked eye – all this has already happened in the past and reached the speed of light (300,000,000 m/s) only at that moment of your observation. Perhaps this star is no longer there, but its twinkle reaches us through a distance equal to a million light-years. But you perceive it as the present, happening at the moment.
And with regard to the extinguished star, the moment when you saw the last flicker that has reached you is already in the future.
I recommend that you carefully read Lee Smolin's book ” The Return of Time. From ancient cosmogony to the cosmology of the future”. I liked it.
These words of A. E. should be viewed in the context of his writing – namely, on the occasion of the death of his friend, perhaps as a condolence, or consolation for the family members of the deceased. I don't think it's a good idea to give it the meaning of a “physically meaningful statement”.
More fully in the letter, this statement reads as follows::
“Right now, he left this strange world a little earlier than me. It doesn't mean anything. People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just a persistent illusion.”
In a way, he's right. In a sense, those who think differently are right: the present is a momentary slice between the past and the future. This statement of his does not carry any formula definition.
I think what was meant was that there is only one particular version of the present that corresponds to a certain future, and that, in turn, corresponds to a single version of the past: in a second, the future will begin, and the past will end a second later.
Because he believed that time is an illusion that exists only in the human brain. Time is not observed. Humanity invented it to describe something. It is not possible to predict or measure the exact time of any event
The past and the future can and do exist only in the present, and at the same time they do not exist in the present.
The present is that speculative facet of the trinity of existence, where the past can no longer be considered the past, and the future is still in zero position in reality.
I think Einstein, in his theory of relativity, had in mind exactly this point, to which all our speculative ideas about it, divided into
past > present > > future.
Einstein imagines this point as past, present, and future.
The point where everything exists and doesn't exist at the same time.
This is the central semantic statement of the theory of relativity.
This meaning is reflected in the law of dialectics on the contradictory interaction of identical parties, in which the contradictory interaction implies precisely this logical paradox – the inseparability of being and non-being.
This meaning is also reflected in the idea of the trinity of God.
The great Einstein was not only a genius of our time, but also just a wise man who understood the truth.
He understood that to say such a thing about only the laws of nature of the earth is very fantastic. But when he saw for himself that every time he immersed himself in his soul, in that inner world, he touched the whole universe, where there are completely different laws and other possibilities, he simply shared his impressions, feelings and sensations.
Because our souls, they are immortal and their home is a place where vreneni does not exist and there is no physical body, as well as a choice. Our souls leave this physical world and return home, where there are no such three dimensions as on earth.
In our physical world, the soul receives three dimensions in which it lives its life. This is the time, this is the body, and this is the choice. Only through these values can a person learn and raise or lower their spiritual growth and vibrations. If there are no such values, then nothing will happen. There is no need to rush anywhere and nothing is as expensive as time, choice and body.
Our inner world is an opportunity to see things based on past experience, being in the present moment, to imagine what we want in the future .
It is there, in our own view, that we can do this. Making a wish is exactly how it can be fulfilled. Only a man can use all the gifts of God so skillfully that he can be Divine himself!
Therefore, it is in vain to build theories and various guesses, it really is and it is indisputable. But only in order to understand this and understand the essence of things, we will have to recognize the existence of other parallel worlds and much more that we as humanity are not yet ready for…
As far as I know the texts of Einstein's articles on both SRT and GR, Einstein never spoke about the simultaneity of the past, present and future. He discussed in great detail the concept of simultaneity, as one of the key concepts of the theory of relativity, the simultaneity of two events at different spatial points! But in this context, it never occurred to him to claim that the present, past, and future were simultaneous. The author of the question apparently meant that the Minkowski space, as a visual geometric illustration of SR, and in combination with the pseudo-Riemannian metric and GR, in one graphic picture depicts all time-like intervals, from the past, to the present and future, separated by a light cone from space-like intervals of simultaneous events! So, any graphs of classical Newtonian mechanics also contain all the moments on the time axis, from the past, to the present and future! Einstein has nothing new in this sense, except that in Newtonian graphs the role of the light cone was played by the plane of simultaneity, which gave simultaneity an absolute status.
Adhering to the knowledge from the experience of enlightenment, I can tell you what this statement of Einstein looks like when the past, future and present are one, through my experience (being) in this state. For ordinary earth perception, time is a certain flow, extension, process. A person (as an example), his body is changing (aging) every second, every moment. And every moment that follows, “you” are no longer the same person. The mind records in memory (this is such a property of the mind as storage) these segments in a certain extent – in time. And what has already “happened” to the person (I) looks past, remains in memory. The mind can “move” from each conscious fixation, remembering the past, or it can move into the “future”, which is not yet available for consciousness, but it exists. Otherwise, there will not be a complete picture in which the mind lives. When I have had an experience (of enlightenment), when the mind stops clinging to the past, the future also disappears, and there is an emphasis on the present. The present itself is not felt in life, because the mind itself avoids it. After all, the mind itself (personal) exists only by moving from remembering the past and moving into the future: remembering and dreaming. The moment there is no memory, the “future” suddenly disappears, they are a product of the personal mind. And suddenly the present is revealed, which it turns out fills everything around and has always been here, including both the past and the future. And this is an eternity. For me, the term “eternity” is not associated with time, as is commonly believed when they want to show archaism and antiquity. Eternity is neither a process nor an extension. Eternity is a given, an infinity, such an expanded reality from nowhere to nowhere. From zero to infinity. On its own. This is what is all Non-Being and Being at the same time. So in this state of mind, when you are in the present, you see that there is no past and no future. They are one with the present. A person in his mind (personal picture of life) simply does not have enough coverage of processes, as with weak RAM and computer processor, as well as because of clinging to the past, which generates movement into the future, in an instant rushing through the “point” of the present-“here and now”. And as soon as death occurs-a break with the senses (limiters of perception, such dispensers), so immediately the whole REALITY will fill the consciousness in an instant and SUDDENLY everything will appear in the present time. And there is no other way in this world, because all dreams.
Because the past, present, and future are all one point on the line.�
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The past shapes the future, and we are here and now. That is, at 1 point. Between what was and what will be.
Eternalism This should mean that the time dimension is only one of the four physical dimensions that are similar in properties, that future events “already exist” and that objectively there is no “flow” of time. This idea is sometimes referred to by the terms “block-time” or “block-universe”, because this theory describes spacetime as a static, unchanging “block”, as opposed to the traditional worldview: three-dimensional space over time…
Einstein considered space-time to be inseparable into time and space. You can imagine space-time as a film on which all the events of the past and future already exist. And, a person, during his life, turns out to be consistently in different frames, but cannot jump over frames. But, an outsider, a hypothetical observer, for example, from the fifth dimension, sees all the frames in their entirety. But, at the same time, it can not squeeze into the film, that is, become a participant in the film.
In a person's life, however, the law of causal relationships applies. This is time in the human sense.
There is only a moment between the past and the future, it is called life!
In general, time is the 4th dimension, which has its own properties and everything in the world is relative. Here we look at the sun and see it for real, but in fact we see it as it was 8 minutes ago. With stars and galaxies in the same way, we look where they have long been gone, and maybe they are already dead.
Past, present, and future exist simultaneously, because time-space-matter = one and the same thing. It is a continuum in which everything is interdependent.
This is confirmed by the Planck dimensions:
A good explanation for this concept came up with a British physicist, Julian Barbour: he proposed to draw an analogy between what we call “moments” and integers: 1,2,3,4, and so on — up to infinity.
Einstein's theory of Relativity depicts time as another dimension, so it can be roughly plotted on the number axis.
And, just as integers on a mathematical scale all exist at the same time, any time interval (whether it is from the past, “present” or future, that is, whether it is closer to the beginning of the axis or further away — it does not matter) �always exists.
I think that he took the present moment of time as an infinitesimal quantity, then in this case the past and future, if we take their nearest extreme infinitesimal moments to the moment of the present, coincide with the moment of the present. This is the continuity of time.
So that this statement does not look like a paradox, we need to consider time not as a vector, but as a structure with a fixed topology.
One example of such a structure is offered by the science of folding https://tss.ruslo.pro/ns.pdf. In it, time is considered as a three-dimensional body of the process life cycle: a kind of egg, the” yolk “of which is represented by past events, the” protein ” by probable events of the future, and the shell is a collection of all possible bifurcation points at which the process ends, either becoming another process or breaking up into parts.
In this time-structure, there is a constant expansion of the core-past due to the fixation- “solidification” of those future options that have been realized. This expansion will end with the “yolk” reaching the shell and completing the process in its previous form.
However, all the events of this time – realized, possible and not realized-still remain in their places and exist “simultaneously”, i.e., in the time structure of one particular process.
Although, if we talk specifically about Einstein, then I am more inclined to the already given answer with the quote “God does not play roulette” – I think that this version is closer to the truth.
Einstein reasoned this way and spoke about it because of his own theories, that approaching the speed of light slows down time.
Albert Einstein used to say that-People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is just stubbornly persistent illusions.
According to his theory of relativity, if one of the two twins remains on Earth, and the other flies into space at a speed close to the speed of light, then, returning home in 10 years, the astronaut who remained young will find his elderly brother on Earth. According to Einstein, for a body moving at the speed of light, time slows down, or even flows in the opposite direction, and this feature makes it possible to move along the time axis.
Einstein didn't know what he'd done.
According to the classical understanding of time, the entire universe simultaneously moves in time.
But Einstein argued that this is not so, that at high speeds time is bifurcated — one system moves and lives at one speed, the other — at another.
But in 1922, the French philosopher Henri Bergson pointed out to him that the multiplicity of times is an illusion, there is only one real time and in theory it goes only in a fixed frame of reference, where there is a person.
From the theory of relativity, everyone remembered the so-called twin paradox.
But it follows from the conditions of the theory that the movement is relative, and who flies away from whom is indifferent.
If you imagine that the rocket on which the second twin flew away is the reference point, and the Earth moves away from it with super-speed, then the brother who remains on Earth will be young, and the one in the rocket will age. These are just logical dead ends.
In the theory of relativity, the pictorial technique of perspective, its dynamic analog, is applied.
A direct perspective is an image on a two-dimensional plane of three-dimensional space.
When one artist draws a portrait of a person who is standing next to him, and another who is 200 meters away.
And there the artist also draws both of them.
The first one will draw “their “person big, and” someone else's ” person small.
And the other artist is exactly the opposite.
According to Einstein, it turns out that the one in the distance is a dwarf.
But he is an ordinary person, and his size only shows the distance from him.
So the theory of relativity shows only the difference in velocities and nothing more.
As we approach the speed of light, time in the formulas seems to slow down.
But only mathematically.
Mathematical calculations are a way of depicting reality, but not reality itself.
To physically exist, you must be present in our world for some time. There can't be an object without length, width, and height, and there can't be an object without a “duration”?
An “instantaneous” object, that is, one that does not exist for at least some amount of time, does not exist at all.
Past and future do not take up time in the present-nihilism. It is impossible to quantify the duration of “present time”: any amount of time that we call “present time” can be divided into parts-past, present, and future.
If the present lasts, say, a second, then this second can be divided into three parts: 1 part will be the past, 2-the present, 3-the future. A third of a second, which we now call the present, can also be divided into three parts. This can continue indefinitely. Therefore, the present does not really exist, because it does not continue in time. Universal nihilism uses this argument to prove that nothing exists at all.
Because it does exist, but at different points in space. So, for us now, “there are” stars that gave off light millions of years ago. We see constellations, but we do not see their present, but their ancient state. At the same time, there is also the present state of the cosmos, but it will be possible to learn it only in the distant future. Even if the floor of the starry sky was swept away by some unprecedented force, we do not know about it now, but we see the old serene picture, where everything is in its place.
Also, there are places in the universe, at a distance of 4 billion light-years from us, which can NOW observe the birth of our planet. And much closer, the places from which your birth is “visible”.
Thus, in the Universe now there is a past, present and future, but there is no one who could see it and it is determined by the finiteness of the speed of light.
Einstein always had a volume of The Secret Doctrine of Helena Blavatsky on his desk. This means that he was familiar with the esoteric teaching. And if so, then he knew that on a certain higher than physical plane of existence ( consciousness) there is no time. And since there is no time, which is a sequence of events, then there is no division of existence into the past and present. and the future. They exist there at the same time.
There is only one tool that allows you to check this – this is the ability of a person to transfer his consciousness to this plane and act there.
I don't know if Einstein actually said this, but this phrase reflects the essence of the Theory of Relativity, which Einstein created in 1905 and supplemented in 1915.
Einstein's bold idea was that our three-dimensional space and time are a single object, which can be called space-time.
And if in space we are well able to move back and forth, then in time we move as on an escalator, evenly in one direction, but there is both the front of the escalator and the back at the same time? So is the time as well. At the same time, there is a past, a present, and a future.
“Why did Einstein say that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously?” Einstein loved the game of confusion, he needed as much fog as possible to deceive. Incomprehensible things attract attention. This is just ordinary PR. Looking for meaning in such misunderstandings is a waste of your personal time, a distraction of your brain activity from pressing tasks.
Actually, you should ask Einstein himself. But why not discuss the concept itself?
This question does not specify what is actually being asked. It probably means that this is already clear. But this is not the case.
Existence begins to be recognized in the subject directly as soon as it appears. With the development of intelligence, as well as obtaining a certain set of knowledge, the subject begins to reason not only about his own existence, which he has always been directly aware of, but also about the existence of objects. Say, other people, animals, plants, nature, the universe, being, and so on. Of course, he can talk about them, just as he knows both the past and the future. But they are not supposed to exist at the present moment.
The past, present and future can be considered to exist simultaneously only from a rather special point of view, in line with a certain worldview concept (say, GR or SRT). If you imagine an observer who is outside of our space-time world, then he can easily observe all of time in its entirety (well, or as far as his gaze will suffice), and for him all the observed moments of time will be merged.
For the human being, however, only the present moment exists in reality, the past is in personal memory or tradition, the future in fantasy or speculation.
Einstein's statement is really nothing more than a kind of mind game.
They exist simultaneously. If you take into account a small period of time: a second. The second has already come and gone and was real for a second. If you take a longer period, then it is also short relative to eternity. As the song says: There is only a moment between the past and the future, which is called life. This moment is the present, which we cannot slow down. Variations in behavior do not affect the passage of time.
If you take a person, then memory is responsible for the past, imagination for the future. But it all comes together at one point, in the present. It turns out that a person lives in three worlds at once-past, present and future.
Everything you do in this second is already past, present and future. What you did will be reflected in all times. After all, we ourselves lay down by our actions both the memory(past) and the future( what will happen after our action) and the present.
Everything is elementary. This question does not mean a physical property of space-time, but the subjective quality of the individual's subconscious mind to analysis, from the tip of the neuron to perception and back (this also “takes” time)… Only a living, heuristic consciousness can sense the passage of time. For the rest of the unconscious, it basically does not exist. By the way, there are people with diseases of the brain areas responsible for the ability to sense time (distortion) , they simply do not realize it… This is the irony of BEING.
Everything is very simple, although it will be difficult to understand with a mind that is used to doing calculations on paper. The universe is a continuum that is constantly in motion, forming connections with itself. It is impossible to fix in any of the moments, except in the calculation on paper. There are conditional reference systems such as space-time, which are also constantly in motion and forming connections. Already formed connections have not gone away, the result is the moment now, while future connections are defined (like a step, a raised foot) but have not come at the moment. For the conscious person, this cannot be understood, since everything is in a state of quantum entanglement with everything, in terms of entropy. Well, as a bonus, the aware person is aware of events in the past.
Because Albert understood the meaning of this moment… The past, present, and future are all at the same point… Only a small number of people can see everything at one point… take, for example, a matchbox , it always exists simultaneously in space. To see all its faces, we need to rotate it ,which means we need to spend some time… But it always stays at the same point.. this is just a person who takes time to understand the whole picture of what is happening…
What exactly he meant – to say exactly, you need to know the context. In a sense, they are simultaneous because they are really just modes of thinking that exist only in the” eternal present ” of consciousness. Perhaps Einstein simply perceived the world as enlightened, timeless, that is, all at once as a single connected organism.
For physics, by and large, time does not exist – there is only the distance between events in space-time, there is a certain orientation of intervals, which is convenient for practical purposes to represent as a time axis, but qualitatively a moment in the past or future does not differ from observation in any way – except for the position of the observer. And for physical laws at the micro level, it doesn't even matter whether time flows in one direction or the other: interactions are symmetric along this axis. The fact of being present at a particular point in the development of a system is an entirely subjective phenomenon, just like being present at a certain point in space (see the Principle of Locality). And what is subjectivity – physics is still powerless to answer. In the era of quantum mechanics and relativity, physics simply encountered this awareness for the first time.
I think the answer is simple – because someone (or something) who has a present always has some past and necessarily has some future. Nothing comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere. These three concepts are interrelated and are elements of a single whole. This statement borders on the border of philosophy and physics, and is directly related to the definition of the first cause, the theory of causality
I don't like it when they give examples of their own mystical experience, although I myself have a lot of experience in meditation and prayer. Here is a real model of the past, present, and future. Let's say our universe performs a cyclical process. For example, explosion-expansion-compression-explosion-expansion-compression… Let's take the simplest loop model – a carousel. If you have driven a full cycle on the carousel, then where are you? In the past? In the present? In the future? You are at this point in the present, have been in the past, and will be in the future. That is, both the past, present, and future are at the same point. But more seriously, the past always leaves its information trail in space…As for the future, first the thought is born, then the “drawing” and only then the future. The “blueprint” information is also stored in the Universe information field. Thus, the trace of the past, the project of the future and our present live simultaneously.
I wonder what will give you the answer to this question and how you will use this information. Okay.
Albert Einstein, like many recognized geniuses, often said that their ideas do not really belong to them, and this information came to them “from outside” and understand it as you want. Vivid examples are N. Tesla or Mendeleev, who saw the well-known table in a dream. If you're interested, read more, and I'll get to the point in the meantime. The whole life and work of these geniuses is imbued with mysticism, individuality and willpower – only fools will deny this. Given that these people had access to knowledge completely beyond the reach of ordinary minds, we can only assume that Albert Einstein's consciousness reached a level where ordinary perception of reality ceased to affect his mind and he went beyond it. Those few who really understood and felt it are unlikely to run around with posters and fanfares informing the whole world that they have discovered something beyond the control of an ordinary person.
In any case, if you answer this question more specifically, I will only tell you my picture of the world, which, quite possibly, will become just an anchor for you and block the opportunity for you to describe it as YOU feel. Given that the descriptive processes of our reality are completely individual for all people, you, as a person asking questions, should understand and feel this yourself. Develop yourself, your consciousness, and perhaps one day such questions in your head will run out. What I wish you quite sincerely.
Look around you. Do you see the time anywhere? It is the time and not a clock with numbers or hands? Can you feel time, breathe it in, trip over it? People can only be aware of time, measure the duration of material processes and events with it, use it in calculations, divide it into intervals of the past, present and future, and so on. That's the trick. Temporal concepts of the present past and future exist, including simultaneously, only inside our consciousness.
Einstein was strongly influenced in his youth by Kant's Critique of pure reason, which, among other things, proves the subjectivity of our perception of time – from the past to the future in the form of a certain arrow. This means that in reality there can be no division between the past and the future, but everything can exist simultaneously. In general, it was one of the books that prompted Einstein to study the nature of time/space and their relationship to each other.
The consequence was the creation of special relativity, then Einstein's former teacher, mathematician Hermann Minkowski, proposed a geometric representation of the kinematics of relativity theory to his student, introducing a four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space (now known as Minkowski space). In this model, time and space are not different entities, but interrelated dimensions of a single space-time. Minkowski declared: “From now on, time in itself and space in itself become an empty fiction, and only their unity preserves the chance of reality.”
In general, this argument was used by Einstein.
Then the following happened. Around 1977-78, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev unexpectedly managed to observe the past, present, and future of space objects simultaneously and found that the picture of the world is adequate to the Minkowski geometry, which, unfortunately, was very briefly reported in his articles. Naturally, several scientific groups rushed to check such sensational observations and confirmed them. Although official science still remains silent, neither for nor against. Here is the original article by Kozyrev, I hope you will understand. He knew more than he said, and talked more than he wrote. I was hoping to write a book where all these points will be analyzed in detail. I didn't have time.
http://www.nkozyrev.ru/bd/014.php
These observations can be considered a physical confirmation that the past, present and future are a single conglomerate. And philosophy is not an assistant here, there are no more Kants, and others do not pull)
Einstein probably learned this from the Vedic book Bhagavad-gita.
There, in the text of Chapter 7 26, it is said, ” O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened in the past, is happening now, and will happen in the future.”
One might argue that God simply remembers the past, sees the present – but how does he see the future?!
Only if it already exists.
It turns out that in some absolute system (for example, spiritual) it all exists invariably: past, present, and future.
Because the past, present and future are located at the same point, or rather in a person. If you want to know the world, know how a person works. A computer, just a rough approximation. Being in the here and now, a person has a database of the past, his computing system performs algorithmization of the future based on his experience of the past and present, so the database already has data and the future, here you can relate the concepts:fate, intuition, deja vu, etc. If you follow the biographies of scientists and draw a parallel with their research, you will find a very close connection.Well, according to your faith…depending on what inner essence will outweigh, for someone time will be linear, for someone three-dimensional, someone in general will hang in eternity))) Because at the gene level, a person has information about the entire period of life and development of a person, and most likely about what will happen. So a person being in the here and now has a decent list of ancestors before him and if the family does not stop at him, then after him, so the past, present and future are also in one moment.
Because yesterday, today, and tomorrow do not exist by themselves, but in our minds. What is considered present and what is considered past depends on the scale of consciousness and the process under consideration. For some, the present is a brief moment, less than a second, but for someone who thinks on a historical, geological, or even astronomical scale, the present can span entire epochs. For Einstein, who thought on a universal, global scale, time took on a completely different meaning, different from ordinary understanding: this is not just a virtual scale from the “past” to the “future” (whose past and whose future?), but energy levels of physical processes of different scales.
When the context of a particular statement is not known, it is very difficult to interpret it correctly. Nevertheless, I would venture to suggest that when Einstein spoke about the time of occurrence of an event, he most likely meant the relativity of a given moment of the present for different simultaneously existing observers.
In other words, the same event for observer A has already occurred and remains in the past, observer B is sure that this event is happening right now – in the present, and observer C expects this event to occur in the future. In other words, it turns out that this event exists immediately in the past, in the present, and in the future. In this sense, it is perfectly acceptable to say that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.
On the other hand, the spatially similar linearization of time and its threefold division into past, present, and future are just a feature of human consciousness. In fact, there are really only successive moments of the present time of zero duration, separated by time intervals of finite duration. That is, the present moments of the object being observed at this moment alternate with time intervals of a certain duration, during which the object is temporarily unavailable for observation.
St. Augustine put it best about the illusory nature of the past and future when he asked the following question and answered it himself: “If the future and the past really exist, then I would like to know where they exist. … wherever they exist, they no longer constitute the future or the past, but the present.
So, wherever that which exists exists, it cannot exist otherwise than in the present” (Confessions, Book Eleven, ch. 18).
And further: “Now it becomes clear to me that neither the future nor the past exists, and that it is not precisely expressed about the three tenses when they say: past, present, and future; but it would be more accurate, it seems, to express it like this: the present of the past, the present of the future. Only in our soul are there three corresponding forms of perception, and not somewhere in the indus (i.e., in objective activity). Thus, for the present of past objects, we have memory, or remembrance (memoria); for the present of present objects, we have sight, view, intuition (intuitus); and for the present of future objects, we have hope, hope (exspectatio).
… the future should not be taken as already existing (jam esse), and the past should not be taken as previously existing (adhuc esse)” (Confessions, Book Eleven, Chapter 20).
Thus, since only a recurring but always new moment of the present is real, the question of the simultaneous existence of the past, present, and future becomes meaningless altogether.
You understand that the past, present, and future cannot exist simultaneously. If someone does not agree with this statement of the question, they should advise how to distinguish them in the present?
The world is an Atom and its repetitions, that is, the world is indivisible. If there is time, then past-present-future, but, surprisingly, future-present-past. There is nothing between the past and the future (Bishop of Hippo).
As for me, this is due to the theory of parallel universes and the space-time continuum. For both he and his student and follower, Stephen Hawking, spoke about it . They also say that time is a relative concept.