Does proof of time not exist in science?

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Cool article Darth. I had forgotten about this Einstein quote.

Einstein, for one, found solace in his revolutionary sense of time. In March 1955, when his lifelong friend Michele Besso died, he wrote a letter consoling Besso’s family: “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

I've always felt that science could one day explain the reality of existence beyond death. Perhaps this is just a step towards that end. Like I've said many times, one does not have to believe in god to allow for the possibility of an afterlife.


Meanwhile, this absence of time may help to explain the Big Bang but my ever-aging knees just aren't buying it.

I think you're misunderstanding what's being said there. Einstein was talking about what I earlier mentioned: eternalism and the B-theory of time. Physics support these positions, and they basically mean that all points in time are real, i.e the past, present and future all exist, as Einstein's says in your quote. It's not about an afterlife, but about the fact that since all points in time exist, we're never truly gone from the world: move further to the past and there you are, a moment in which you exist which never stops existing.