It depends on what you define the present as.
The future was October 21st 2015.
Always right now.
It does not begin.
It moves ahead of your perceptions.
That said everything has already happened all at once and is over. Our sensual reality refuses to see that. We are too small to see it.
No physical mechanisms predefines future events (or is there one ?).
So, I could state that the future does not exist yet and the past as ceased to exist.
in that statement I have a problem with the definition of existence. Does the definition of existence exist itself ? This is (is it ?) more a problem of terminology than philosophy or physics.
It is a human concept that does not exist in reality, the future could for the universe have the same value of the past, the great snake eating its tail
The future is in the future
And the past is a victory walk
Well I need to make you understand, girl
I’M A MAN NOT A DISCO BALL!
The future is now, old man
I don’t have my hoverboard yet. It can’t be the future.
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I fail to see much increased risk over a traditional skateboard TBH
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The hoverboard from back to the future is never that high off the ground. It is the one I’ve been waiting for. There is no other.
I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it’s actually starting to upset him
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In one second or less
Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.
Oh it’s already started. We just didn’t get the good one.
What if we actually did? Scary.
I feel like we’re in it lately with: the lab grown meat, 3D printing building and drones, CRISPR technology, and even something as “basic” as our smartphones.
At this point the only thing that I’m waiting for is space travel 😎
Edit: ugh, just read the rest of the responses and people are such bummers
Thank you for your answer! Nice to see something besides a literal interpretation of the question (Though to be fair, it was also the first thing that popped in my head :)
Anyway, I have to agree with you. A lot of things that seemed almost impossible or ridiculously far-fetched when I was little are now common place or close to becoming reality. And I’m not even that old! (forever in my early thirties *cough* *cough*)
Never. Not being started is its definition itself
Unless you make it relative to something else. Now is the future of before, and before was the future of a earlier before
At the beep.
Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.
t_furure_min = t_now + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds
long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))
Fixed-precision arithmetic would probably be more appropriate here, but since I’m lazy, long double works. Although I am curious now if a long double has sufficient precision to give a meaningful value for this.
I feel like at some point, you’d need arbitrary precision and arbitrarily-sized real numbers in order to meaningfully represent it.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon. Dark Helmet: How soon?
