Is one of our most deeply rooted assumptions about Einstein wrong?
In a famous letter to a bereaved family friend, Einstein wrote: “For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
This has been widely interpreted to mean that Einstein’s theory of relativity itself implies that the passage of time is an illusion and that time, like space, has no direction, a position often referred to as “the block universe”.
But despite Einstein revolutionising our understanding of time, nothing in his theory of relativity suggests that the distinction between past, present, and future is an illusion, argues Tim Maudlin.
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