BECOMING, EVENTS AND THE ONTOLOGY OF PHYSICAL THEORIES

In the first part of the paper I present a definition of becoming that overcomes the irrelevant as well as misleading debates between presentists and eternalists. Since my definition essentially requires an ontology of events occurring in temporal succession, I go on showing that not only the theory of relativity, but also quantum mechanics, in its various interpretations, requires such an ontology, despite the limitations in the possibility of representing quantum processes in a spatiotemporal arena.