Physics and our intuitive outlook on time

Abstract

This discussion is an attempt to reconcile our ideas of physical time with those of psychological time. Based on accepted arguments from relativity and on a much less accepted interpretation of quantum phenomena I am adopting a picture of physical time which accords equal and full reality status to all moments in time. This seems to be in sharp conflict with our intuitive outlook, according to which the future has no reality yet and is open to the decisions of our free will. I will show that this conflict is due to a flawed concept of free will and its relationship to determinism.