the present being merely an illusion in which nothing is actually happening.
If you break time down to Planck time, to its smallest “size” then we could see that time is made up of individual (discrete) quanta or “blocks”. Each quanta could be described as static because it is being observed. But each block disappears when observed and a new block is created because Spacetime is expanding. Each “now” becomes a new “now” as soon as you think about it. So it is always seems to be “now” and that time is static. These blocks appear as a chain but we never experience the chain, only one of its links, that seems to be the same link all the “time”.
If time was static then everything that could happen would happen at once. That’s a lot of multitasking to deal with and not enough time in the day. That’s my excuse anyway! Or maybe there is no “Now”. Maybe we have one foot in the past and one in the future at the same Time. That gives us the illusion of Now.
