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(110,336 posts)The Catholic teachings about God aren't bound by those restrictions.
And even scientists are exploring other possibilities.
https://www.space.com/29859-the-illusion-of-time.html
Why is time controversial? It feels real, always there, inexorably moving forward. Time has flow, runs like a river. Time has direction, always advances. Time has order, one thing after another. Time has duration, a quantifiable period between events. Time has a privileged present, only now is real. Time seems to be the universal background through which all events proceed, such that order can be sequenced and durations measured.
The question is whether these features are actual realities of the physical world or artificial constructs of human mentality. Time may not be what time seems this smooth unity without parts, the ever-existing stage on which all happenings happen.
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"What physics gives us," Price said, "is the so-called 'block universe,' where time is just part of a four-dimensional space-time
and space-time itself is not fundamental but emerges out of some deeper structure."
We sense an "arrow" or direction of time, and even of causation, he said, because our minds add a "subjective ingredient" to reality, "so that we are projecting onto the world the temporal perspective that we have as agents [in this environment]."