ABSTRACT

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity has seemed to some to have implications for the debate between the defenders of the tensed theory of time and the defenders of the tenseless theory of time. Some philosophers and physicists argue that Einstein’s theory implies the tenseless theory of time. They argue it implies that future events are equally as real as present events, and therefore that the tensed theory that future events are not-yet-real is false. For example, it might be argued that since the car crash is in O1’s future and in O2’s present, then it must exist, it must be fully real.