Time flow

pp. 143-151

in: L. N. Oaklander (ed), The importance of time, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

“Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them. ‘The formality of taking place’ is merely an indication that the observer has on his voyage of exploration passed into the absolute future of the event in question” (Eddington (1920), p. 51).