Read part 1: Joseph Diekemper sets out the hypothesis that the present is nothing but a border between the past and the future.

Philosophers and physicists often think about time in very different ways. In fact, among themselves so do physicists; it is not easy to find two who agree in all details or even in their overall concepts. In this note, I will mention some of the ways in which my views differ from those of Joseph Diekemper and also from mainstream physics.