Does the past is real?

[afghooey]

Some believe that our experience of time, one moment at a time, is only due to the fact that we cannot percieve the wholeness of time. In that theory, time is not really a series of moments strung together. All time --- past, present and future --- all of them exisit forever, and at the same "time." Time is just another dimension, like the spatial dimensions that we recongnize as space, but for some reason we experience time as a flow and can only percieve it a moment at a time. But in reality it exists in its entirety, just like space does.

I've been thinking about this, and it raises some interesting questions..

If the future already exists, what becomes of novelty, spontaneity, and choice? From our perspective of reality, our limited view of the fourth dimension, these things make sense. But if everything has already happened, so to speak, outside of the confines of our limited perspective, then our fates are already determined, no?

afghooey Reviewed by afghooey on 10-02-2007. Does the past is real? Once, a friend of mine, asked me a question that i couldnt answer properly. Since then, i agree with him, but still am open for a good answer. He asked "do you have any CONCRETE proof that the past REALLY existed"? Like... the universe could have been created right now, as it is now. If we were created as we are now, with all memories already into our minds, how we could be sure that this memories were real, that they really refer to events that happened? How can we be sure that they are Rating: 5