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| | Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Since 2000, many cosmologists have come to believe the Big Bang wasn't the beginning after all, and the universe was infinite even when our Big Bang was initiating. |
 | | The propositions that are expressed at each particular time, such as "It is raining at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000 in Chicago," do not change their truth values through time, but are timelessly true; and so the flow of time cannot be explained in terms of them. |
 | | Assuming it did rain in Chicago then, this latter tenseless sentence can be used to express a proposition that is true when uttered on Jan. 1, 2000, but is not true in 1950. |
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