Does the Future Exist?
Unusually, this isn’t a comment on climate change and the impending doom of humanity - I suspect at least a couple of us will scrape through. No, it’s about how when I type “a future” into one of Google's docs, it suggests I change it to “the future”. Has autocorrect finally become sentient and it's trying to tell me something? Spelling I can live with. Attempting to alter my fundamental beliefs about the nature of reality feels like overreach. As a science fiction writer whose books are set in a world that's supposed to be realistic, this is clearly something that interests me. My last book was set in three different time periods and it occurred to me I might want to do some mucking around the past and future, but could I? Would it break my rule that you can't bend the laws of physics? Fate When we talk about the future, there’s an implication it’s an actual thing. In fact, whether there’s a defined fate in store for us or not is a fundamental physical and philosophic