Abstract
Despite that Minkowski's rigorous arguments for the reality of spacetime impose fundamental limits on our views of the physical world, many papers and books, which deal with the issue of the nature of what exists, completely ignore them as if they did not exist. I am not alone to think that ignoring (and therefore contradicting) such a strict no-go (based on the experimental evidence) is not how science works. That is why, as a case study of this worrying trend, I will discuss Carlo Rovelli's paper "Neither Presentism nor Eternalism" in which he argues that becoming is an objective feature of the world and which is the most recent example of this trend.
Vesselin Petkov