>>102754831It's metaphysics bros:
'Consider, for a moment, the entire temporal history of the universe. It consists of a series of events, stretching from the Big Bang, past the formation of the planets in our solar system, the evolution of life, events in the 20th century, events that are going on now, and on into the unknown future.
One way of thinking about this series involves the recognition that each event is located in either the past, present or future, and that they can be ordered according to whether they are in the distant past, near past, present, near future, or distant future. The series of events conceived in this way is called the A-series, a usage derived from McTaggart (1927).
The other way involves the recognition that each event in this series is temporally related to every other event, in that it is either earlier than, simultaneous with, or later than it. Both the temporal locations of events relative to each other, and their temporal ordering, can be given in terms of these temporal relations, without any need to employ the concepts of pastness, presentness and futurity. The series of events conceived in this way is called the B-series.'
