Relativity and the Moving Spotlight

The moving spotlight theory combines eternalism--the doctrine that past, present, and future times all exist--with "objective becoming." The claim that there is objective becoming has two parts. First, facts about which time is present are nonrelative. That is, even if in some sense each time is present relative to itself, only one time is absolutely present. That time, and only that time, glows with a special metaphysical status. And second, which instant is absolutely present keeps changing. Here, Skow explains how to formulate the moving spotlight theory so that it is compatible with special relativity.