Illusion of time

...Life is not just a collection of atoms — proteins and molecules spinning like planets around the sun. It is true that the laws of chemistry can tackle the rudimentary biology of living systems, but there is more to us than the sum of our biochemical functions. 

Conversely, physical existence cannot be divorced from the animal life that coordinates experience. We are connected not only by intertwined consciousness, but by a pattern that is a template for the universe itself.

Of course, we live in the same world. Particles do not exist with definite physical properties until they are observed. Every particle has a range of possible physical states, but it’s not until the actual act of observation that it takes on defined properties. 

Time has a way of reminding us of its perishable nature in the retrospect of our own reflections. The very present moment will soon be our past and the nearest future will become our present. Thus, the actions of our very present affects the nearest future. Likewise if we integrate them together, we will soon realise that our deed of the present is creating a projection in our own future which we are bound to follow. It's just like those strings of the universe, we pull it differently and the future will get modified.

So until the present is determined, how can there be a past or even a future?

Thus...

"...The distinction between past, present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion.."