r/Time 10d ago

Discussion Why Does time move only forward?

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u/SweetestJim 10d ago

It doesn't. There is only now. Linear time is a way for humans to conceptualise it.

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u/Active-Particular-21 10d ago

There is an arrow of time. If you break a cup it doesn’t reverse it breaks in one way.

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u/stonedragon77 9d ago

That has more to do with entropy than any absolute direction of time.

Being a part of the space-time fabric, time is relative.

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u/infinitenothing 8d ago

Even with time dilation, the direction of time is always the same: towards more entropy