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> [Platt]
> > Can change occur in the past? Or the future?
> 
> Yes & yes.  Many changes have occurred in the past, some for the better.  If 
> there
> are no changes in the future, your clothes will begin to smell.

If the past can change, please change the order of the horses at Aqueduct
that crossed the finish line so the horse I bet on to win actually won instead 
of 
coming in fifth. If the future can change, please tell me which horse I should 
bet
on to win tomorrow.

> [Platt]
> > What occurred yesterday is only in present memory today. 
> 
> No.  Long ago tetonic plates crashed into each other. Today no one remembers 
> that,
> but we do have the Rocky Mountains.

Nobody experienced the plates crashing into each other, but somebody theorized
that the event occured and somehow you became familiar with the theory. So it 
only
resides in your present memory, and the memory of others who know about the 
theory. 

> [Craig] 
> > The present will soon be past.
> 
> [Platt]
> > To be instantly replaced by a new present, ad infinitum. Actually, it isn't 
> > replaced. It stays while everything else goes. 
> 
> You were right the first time. 

When and if you manage to escape the present as you go about your daily life,
do let us know your secret. As they say, you'll never get out of this world 
alive. 




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