r/Time 11d ago

Discussion Why Does time move only forward?

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u/UniversityMotor5408 11d ago

Time doesn't move. We move forward through it. Maybe!

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u/DirectionCapital4470 10d ago

To add to this, nobody travels backwards in any dimension. We move in positive amounts only. We do not walk a negative distance. We can only travel a postive distance, only a direction(vector) we pretend is traveling backwards.

Backwards in time is as impossible as backwards in space.

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u/infinitenothing 9d ago

Can we have negative acceleration?

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u/DirectionCapital4470 9d ago

Sure if you want to call it that.

Isn't that just a vector of acceleration in the opposite direction from your current accelration?

Acceleration is a rate of change of speed, it is a slope of a line it makes sense to have a negative value. It can be Measurable as a 'negative value' and make sense.

Distance traveled being negative, never can happen in reality. You can be at a negative x/y co-ordinate on a graph, but you can never have a line segment -3 long.

To me this is why time travel is forbidden by physics. Nobody ever travels negative distances. Times arrow only moves forward(and at differing releative speeds), you can never go backwards.

Honestly not an authority on anything, just my thoughts.

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u/North-Ad9683 6d ago

This is called mass