The point Edgar seems to be missing vis-a-vis block universes is that, whether correct or not, they explain our experience of time. Otherwise Einstein, Weyl, Minkowski etc would have dismissed the idea of space-time out of hand, instead of embracing it as a replacement for the Newtonian paradigm of space and time as separate dimensions (Newtonian physics also posited a block universe, of course, but this was at the time merely an ontological assumption - it took Special Relativity to produce testable consequences).
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