Jim_and_Glenda So, spacetime is a 4D solid, which gives some people the impression that the past is somehow closer, more here, than if they think of space as 3D and time as another independent dimension. This is pants. Think of a one dimensional line passing through the universe - and someone within that line says, there is a second dimension, creating a "plane", which is fair enough. But it is not fair enough to claim that all the infinite things in the 2nd dimension seem "closer" to the line just because you understand that it is there.The past is not here, and neither is the future. They are as distant and untouchable as a 4th "spatial" dimension.The problem for the artistic sensibility is that we all lives our lives in time, experiencing for ourselves "now" continuously throughout our lives. And, we know about history, and can predict the future. But this does not make 1066 close, any more than a point on the plane is close to the line. OK, added to all the cod philosophy beloved by middle-aged men is a terrible film.