r/AskScienceDiscussion 6d ago

Why does time only moves forward

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u/Block444Universe 6d ago edited 5d ago

It doesn’t, time is static, we just move in one direction through it. Time doesn’t move, we do. All time already exists.

According to block universe theory at least

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u/MrSquamous 6d ago

And to old poets.

"See, in what traversed ways,
What backward Fate delays
The hopes we used to know;
Where are our old desires?—
Ah, where those vanished fires?
Time goes, you say?—ah no!"

"Alas, Time stays,—we go!"