Single Idea 22939

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series]

Full Idea

How can anything change in a B-universe?

Gist of Idea

The B-series doesn't seem to allow change

Source

Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 08 'Second')

Book Reference

Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.141


A Reaction

It seems that change needs time to move on. A timeless series of varying states doesn't seem to be the same thing as change. B-seriesers must be tempted to deny change, and yet nothing seems more obvious to us than change.