My usual Block Universe analogy is a book. What time is it right now in Middle Earth? That question does not make much sense, although we coherently ask a reader, “What point are you at?” A page is a time-slice of that universe. We stand outside that universe the way a hypothetical observer stands outside time in a Block Universe.
This is a really old comment to be replying to, but the intuition pump presented here is so good (for me, anyway) that I marvel that I didn’t think of it myself! I guess that’s what separate merely understanding something and understanding it well enough to explain it.
This is a really old comment to be replying to, but the intuition pump presented here is so good (for me, anyway) that I marvel that I didn’t think of it myself! I guess that’s what separate merely understanding something and understanding it well enough to explain it.