<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:11 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Welcome to the Block Universe<br>
Where time is an illusion, reality just is, and you can see yourself as eternal<br>
By Jo Marchant, March 17, 2026<br>
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<<a href="https://nautil.us/welcome-to-the-block-universe-1278973" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nautil.us/welcome-to-the-block-universe-1278973</a>><br>
Quote:<br>
Called the “block universe,” it is essentially a static brick that<br>
encompasses all of space and all of time. Rather than a<br>
three-dimensional place that evolves, the block universe is a static,<br>
four-dimensional entity (the fourth dimension being time). You can<br>
imagine it as a vast block of glass or ice, stretching out in every<br>
direction in space as well as back and forth in time, containing all<br>
the connections and events that make up the universe.<br>
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Interesting article. Max Tegmark is quoted.<br>
BillK</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing that Bill!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is a good article for describing what the block universe idea is, but I found it lacking in giving any reasons for why physicists choose to believe it over the conventional presentist view. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If one were interested in the reasons for a block universe, and why relativity so strongly suggests it, I have written an article to that effect here: <a href="https://alwaysasking.com/what-is-time/">https://alwaysasking.com/what-is-time/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>