What about other fields in physics and <!g>cosmology: do they favor a flowing view of time? Cosmology would seem to favor the flowing view over the <!g>block universe, since we regularly talk about an expanding universe - clearly a temporal concept. Again, though, the underlying theory - <!g>general relativity - is constructed on the bedrock of <!g>special relativity, and so it too can be given a timeless interpretation, and the model of an expanding universe can be seen as a mathematical abstraction.

Similarly, <!g>quantum mechanics can be given a timeless or a <!g>flowing time interpretation. The clearest exception to this problem of competing interpretations is probably <!g>non-linear, <!g>non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which strongly favors a temporal interpretation. The problem here is that most scientists do not take it as a fundamental theory, but a derivative of other more fundamental ones. So the debate continues.