“[He] counted an event’s becoming more past as a change.On this view, the mere passage of time counts as change, andso time without change would be impossible by definition.”• “Shoemaker does not count these McTaggart changes asgenuine changes, and understands ‘change’ as ‘ordinarychange’: an object changes when it changes its colour,height, weight, momentum, position in space, etc. Sounderstood, the question of whether there can be time withoutchange no longer immediately answers itself.”