[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[Jehanne]

Jeananne and Helios, I pity you both for your inability to see past for your own contempt. Theologically, eternalism comports better with theism than presentism, the position I have chosen to explore.

Both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are hard subjects. You can find a small class on YouTube where I believe a UC San Diego (or Davis?) physics professor begins his Quantum Field Theory class by writing the following equation on his blackboard:

QFT = QM + SR

For practicing physicists, the trick is to develop a new model where the 'SR' is replaced by 'GR'.

Who, prior to Albert Einstein, even proposed the idea that a clock sitting in one's basement would tick slower than an identical clock sitting upstairs? And, yet, GPS, which is in your phone and mine, would not work if not for Special & General Relativity.

Our Universe has its strange aspects to it. The explanation, "God did It", absent God's settling the matter once and for all (e.g., "spontaneous healing of an adult amputee" or the equivalent), is leading nowhere. No NSF grant proposals have been submitted in support of such a hypothesis, only books to be sold on Amazon.