“I shall argue that, strange though it may sound, there is no such phenomenon as the passage of time. Philosophers distinguish two main theories about time: the 'A-theory' according to which there is a real 'now' and a real passage of time, and the 'B-theory', according to which there are times, and these are ordered (that is, any time is either earlier or later than any other time), but there is no real 'now', and time does not pass. I shall explain and defend the B-theory, and thus the view that time does not pass. I shall briefly discuss the main existing arguments against passage before describing an argument of my own. According to this argument, the main reason to believe that time passes is that our experience of the world seems to tell us that time passes, and that there is something special about the 'now'. I shall argue, however, that this must be an illusion, for there are very good reasons for believing that the alleged passage of time is not the kind of phenomenon that we could possibly be aware of through experience.”

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