ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how science has taken on much of the responsibility for answering questions about temporality. It shows how the idea of the non-existence of time poses questions that cannot be answered using conventional views. The chapter also describes how common sense is an important feature when dealing with the apparently paradoxical claim on the unreality of time. It looks at the components of the A series. The term ‘A series’ describes the direction of time in a one dimensional transitory series. The possibility that there may not be any more future five minutes from now only further weakens the argument for the A series. Although the A series can exist without future we would be hard pressed to sort out what ‘fed’ the present in its absence. Although the A series remains an inescapable part of how time appears to us, analysis of its phases produced various conflicting and unconvincing results.
