It is often argued that the physics of time contradicts our experience. In response to Avshalom Elitzur, Matt Farr challenges this view by claiming that we need not fear that modern physics gets anything wrong about our subjective experience of time.

Avshalom Elitzur will be speaking at the upcoming HowThelightGetsIn Festival in London, September 23rd/24th 2023 alongside Michio Kaku, Tim Maudlin, and Jimena Canales. Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and festival programme here.

Does time flow? Do we experience it as flowing? And does physics suggest that, ‘really’, time does not flow? In his recent essay for IAI News, Avshalom Elitzur notes that physics treats the flow of time as unreal and illusory, and suggests that his own ‘spacetime dynamics’ theory offers a way back for the reality of time flow. But I think there’s a simpler way forward.