Physicists insist on determinism: your past and present determine your future uniquely, per Einstein's equations of general relativity. They call this strong cosmic censorship. A mathematician found some types of black holes - charged, non-rotating objects in an expanding universe - that allow an observer inside the black hole to travel across a horizon into a place where the past is obliterated and there are an infinite number of possible futures for every initial state. [
1] Humans believing in a past and a future, all determining the present. (see this article
here and relevant posts in Harmonia Philosophica for how the future affects the present) A present which in essence never existed or can ever exist. Consisting just by fleeting moments in an illusionary river (time), which we can never cross. Try to put your feet into that river and it will go away. We have split the water into zillions of droplets and yet we can feel none of them. Go into the black hole and see for yourself. There was no river in the first place. Only empty space; flowing through nothingness. Start fresh. Be born again. Oh look! What a nice river…
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