If Time is Not Real, Might Eternity Be?

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If you are a physicalist, the very idea of eternity appears ridiculous. It’s one of those outlandish religious beliefs that, from your perspective, should have gone the way of belief in the Holy Grail a long time ago. Science teaches us, you think, that we exist in time and in space in some kind of four dimensional world now called spacetime, and that spacetime had a beginning 13.8 billion years ago and it will have an…