What is the future?

The future

is the time after the past and the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the inevitability of the future, anything that currently exists and will exist can be classified as permanent, meaning it will exist forever, or temporary, meaning it will take forever. end. In the Western view, which uses a linear view of time, the future is the part of the projected timeline that should happen. In special relativity, the future is considered the absolute future, or the future cone of light. In the philosophy of the time, presentism is the belief that there is only the present and the future and that the past is unreal. Religions consider the future when addressing issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end times and the end of the world will be like. Religious figures such as prophets and fortune tellers claimed to see into the future. Future standards, or futurology, are the science, art and practice of postulating possible futures. Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than a monolithic future, and the limits of prediction and probability, in relation to the creation of possible and preferable futures.Predeterminism is the belief that the past, present, and future have been already decided.The concept of the future has been explored extensively in cultural production, including art movements and genres devoted entirely to its elucidation, such as the 20thcentury move futurism.In physics In physics, time is the fourth dimension.Physicists argue that spacetime can be understood as a sort of stretchy fabric that bends due to forces such as gravity.In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline, which is the same for all observers.In special relativity the flow of time is relative to the observer's frame of reference.The faster an observer is traveling away from a reference object, the slower that object seems to move through time.Hence, the future is not an objective notion anymore.A more modern notion is absolute future, or the future light cone.While a person can move forward or backward in all three spatial dimensions, many physicists claim that you can only move forward in time. One of the results of the special theory of relativity is that a person can travel into the future by traveling at very high speeds. Although this effect is negligible under normal conditions, space travel at very high speeds can significantly alter the flow of time. Earth that is many years in the future. Some physicists claim that by using a wormhole to connect two regions of spacetime, a person could theoretically travel through time. Physicist Michio Kaku points out that to power this hypothetical time machine and "poke a hole in the fabric of spacetime" would require the energy of a star. Another theory is that a person could time travel with cosmic strings. of the time, presentism is the belief that there is only the present and that the future and the past are unreal. Past and future "entities" are interpreted as logical constructs or fictions.The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally.Another view is sometimes called the 'growing block' theory of time—which postulates that the past and present exist, but the future does not.Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space, but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian/Albert Einsteinian relativity in conjunction with certain other philosophical theses that many find uncontroversial.Saint Augustine proposed that the present is a knife edge between the past and the future and could not contain any extended period of time.Contrary to Saint Augustine, some philosophers propose that conscious experience is extended in time.For instance, William James said that time is "...the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible." Augustine proposed that God is outside of time and present for all times, in eternity.Other early philosophers who were presentists include the Buddhists.A leading scholar from the modern era on Buddhist philosophy is Stcherbatsky, who has written extensively on Buddhist presentism:In psychology, we know that human behavior includes the anticipation of the future. Anticipatory behavior can be the result of a psychological outlook toward the future, such as optimism, pessimism, and hope. Optimism is an outlook on life that maintains a view of the world as a positive place. People would say that optimism is seeing the glass “half full” of water rather than half empty. It's the philosophical opposite of pessimism.