[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[polymath257]

If there is no way to retrieve that information from the past using what exists in the present, then there simply is no truth of the matter.

I think that's silly.

"Chaucer ate fish for his final breakfast" is either true or untrue, even though there's no way to know which. There can be truths which humans can never know.

Yes, we may never know, but I am going past that. Maybe there is no way to know, even in theory. And if that is the case, it would be neither true nor untrue.

Would you say that the statement 'my last meal will be fish' is equally either true or untrue?