What is A-theory?

A-theory is like having a favorite storybook that you read every night, it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Imagine you have a toy train that goes around a track. In A-theory, the train already knows where it's going, it’s not just randomly bouncing from one place to another. The whole journey is planned out in advance, like your favorite storybook: there are specific moments when the train will be at certain points on the track. You can look at the clock and say, "Right now, the train is at the red bridge," or "In five minutes, it'll be at the tunnel." Everything has its own special time.

Think of A-theory as watching a movie that plays exactly as written. The characters know what happens next, they're not just making things up as they go along. Each scene has its own moment in the story, and you can point to any part of the film and say, "This happened at 10:12 PM." It's like having a schedule for your toy train, everything is set in stone.

In this view of time, past, present, and future all exist at once, just like every page of your storybook is already there, waiting to be read. A-theory is like having a favorite storybook that you read every night, it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Imagine you have a toy train that goes around a track. In A-theory, the train already knows where it's going, it’s not just randomly bouncing from one place to another. The whole journey is planned out in advance, like your favorite storybook: there are specific moments when the train will be at certain points on the track. You can look at the clock and say, "Right now, the train is at the red bridge," or "In five minutes, it'll be at the tunnel." Everything has its own special time.

Think of A-theory as watching a movie that plays exactly as written. The characters know what happens next, they're not just making things up as they go along. Each scene has its own moment in the story, and you can point to any part of the film and say, "This happened at 10:12 PM." It's like having a schedule for your toy train, everything is set in stone.

In this view of time, past, present, and future all exist at once, just like every page of your storybook is already there, waiting to be read.