The family has welcome a new member, Kailani, an Iván Stone's friend who is going to stay with the family, at least during their staying in the Polynesian island, and the have been reading their horoscopes.
The future is the time after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist forever, or temporary, meaning that it will end.
In the Occidental view, which uses a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the projected timeline that is anticipated to occur In special relativity, the future is considered absolute future, or the future light cone.
In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be. Religious figures such as prophets and diviners have claimed to see into the future.
A future study, or futurology, is the science, art, and practice of postulating possible futures. Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.
Predeterminism is the belief that the past, present, and future have been already decided.
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The concept of the future has been explored extensively in cultural production, including art movements and genres devoted entirely to its elucidation, such as the 20th-century movement futurism.
In physics, time is the fourth dimension. Physicists argue that space-time can be understood as a sort of stretchy fabric that bends due to forces such as gravity. In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline, which is the same for all observers. In special relativity the flow of time is relative to the observer's frame of reference.
The faster an observer is traveling away from a reference object, the slower that object seems to move through time. Hence, the future is not an objective notion anymore. A more modern notion is absolute future, or the future light cone. While a person can move backward or forwards in the three spatial dimensions, many physicists argue you are only able to move forward in time.
In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists, and the future and past are unreal. Past and future entities are construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is eternalism, which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally.
Another view, not held by many philosophers, is sometimes called the growing block theory of time -which postulates that the past and present exist, but the future does not.
Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be.
In religion, Major Prophets are said to have the power to change the future. Common religious figures have claimed to see into the future, such as Minor Prophets and diviners. The term afterlife refers to the continuation of existence of the soul, spirit or mind of a human or animal after physical death, typically in a spiritual or ghostlike after world.
Deceased persons are usually believed to go to a specific region or plane of existence in this after world, often depending on the rightness of their actions during life, like the Ghost of Canterville.
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Prediction is very difficult,
especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
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