There is nothing in physics that distinguishes the past, present and future from each another. It’s simply that we can only access the present. According to the currently established laws of nature, the future, the present, and the past all exist in the same way.  Existential Physics; a scientists guide to life’s biggest questions by Sabine Hossenfelder

I blame Albert Einstein for this. He showed that time is relative and speeds up or slows down according to where you are, or how big a mass is near you. If Hossenfelder is right, then it means we live in a Predetermined Universe – everything that can happen has already happened, we just don’t know it yet.

Hossenfelder then goes on to say that information cannot be destroyed, except in a black hole, so the past, present and future are all out there, we just can’t access it. This means that, since everything has already happened that will happen, fate or destiny has been predetermined – it isn’t given by a higher power, such as by the Roman Goddess Fortuna, blindly turning her wheel; or according to a divine plan devised by a Stoic, Christian, or Islamic god. But then again – who predetermined it? 

The rest of this reply to the prompt was originally replied to on 1st March 2025 and can be found here