the 'now' is just your 'perspective'
It's the only perspective that is real, the rest is history or a mystery...all we have is now
Some people look towards the future
Some people live in the past
Those people, those crazy people
are living their lives with their heads up their ass
Don't worry about the things you can't change
ALL YOU HAVE IS NOW.
Your examples are great arguments that time exist and to the lay person convincing
Not so much to physicist (I am not one)
I just know enough to know we just don't know what we don't know. Until we cross over from Now to the Then, it's all just a crazy collection of micro moments collecting up and what this illusion we're 'experiencing" is all about is far beyond our feeble minds and pay grade....No one knows what this life thing is all about. If they say they do they are either lying, accepted what some other liar or liars have convinced them to believe or are just seriously delusional.
We are living in a dream within a dream within a dream... least that's what I reckon ..therefore I AM