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Originally Posted by Ken G
So does this imply a kind of time-lessness? I think it does, yes-- both a timeless and a spaceless quality to the information that applies to an entangled system. Perhaps the best way to say that is that time and space do not underlie all information, instead they are examples of the kinds of information we can access with our measurements. An even deeper issue is, when we do extract that information, are we reading reality, or constructing reality, in our own image in some sense?
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Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent". The only thing that is real is the whole of spacetime.
He argued that all events "are". They eternally occupy their distinct point in spacetime. There is no flow of time.
One can picture spacetime as a loaf of bread, the slices represent different spacetime snapshots (in this analogy, clearly only two physical dimensions.)
Our conscious experience seems to sweep through the slices.