Relativity theory does not imply that the future already exists: a counterexample

Abstract

It is often said that the relativistic fusion of time with space rules out genuine change or ``becoming''. I offer the classical sequential growth models of causal set theory as counterexamples.

plainTeX, 12 pages, no figures. To appear in Vesselin Petkov (editor), Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World (Springer 2007, in press). Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers (or wherever my home-page may be)

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