<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>gjm wrote</title><author_name>gjm (npub1nv…6z58r)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1nvenfdndqszkyycc8vhrvlrd067xqjt0pf03u2uwllazt0dqnw0q66z58r</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>Your smartphone GPS works because relativity treats time as a fourth geometric dimension. Under this math, time does not flow, and &#34;right now&#34; is not special. Your childhood, this exact second, and your final breath all co-exist as permanent, unchangeable coordinates in the four dimensional block of history. They are all equally real, right now, like points on a map.&#xA;&#xA;If your spiritual or philosophical worldview relies on time being a flowing, present-only river, your daily technology is running on a deeper model of reality than your theology. Either your belief system has a way to account for a universe where all of history is already written and real, or there is some serious thinking left to do.</html></oembed>