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The evolving history of the universe is normally regarded as being divided into three parts: past, present, and future. The present instant “now” separates the past that has already happened from the future that has not yet happened. One idea of the nature of things is described by the phrase “closed past, open future”.
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Stapp, H.P. (2017). Actual Past and Historical Past. In: Quantum Theory and Free Will. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58301-3_8
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