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Sider Time
Sider Time
1. Reality
Spatially distant objects (planets) are as real as spatially
near objects
Temporally distant objects (dinosaurs) are as real as present
objects
2. Parts
Spatial objects have parts that take up space.
Temporal objects have parts that exist in time.
3. Here and now
indexicals
Space and time are not analogous
1. Change
Things that have different properties at different times
change
Things that have different properties at different places
don’t change
Can we tell a coherent (consistent) time travel story? If yes, then time is
like space.
Marty McFly is first at 1985, then at 1955. Contradiction?
Marty goes back in time and interrupts his parents’ getting together, so
stops them from having him, but if they never had him, he couldn’t go
back in time to interrupt them, in which case they would have had him.
However Terminator is coherent: