ABSTRACT
Quantum mechanics seemingly offers something to everyone. Some find free
will in quantum mechanics. Others discover consciousness and value. Still
others locate the hand of God in the quantum wave function. It may come as
no surprise, therefore, to hear that many believe quantum mechanics implies
or at least makes the world more hospitable to the tensed theory of time.1
Quantum mechanics rescues the significance of the present moment, the
mutability of the future and possibly even the whoosh of time’s flow. It
allegedly does so in at least two different ways:
