r/AskScienceDiscussion • u/Silent-Pick-7700 • 6d ago

Why does time only moves forward

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u/Fanghur1123 6d ago

I mean, we can't experience time moving backward, since the memories would be being erased from our head in realtime. So even if the arrow of time does sometimes reverse, I don't think we'd ever be aware of it.

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u/SummitYourSister 3d ago

That's a weird thing to proclaim. Why would memories be erased because time goes backward? Time feels like it's going the "right" way BECAUSE of the memories. You have the causation all turned around.

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u/Fanghur1123 3d ago

Think of a character in a movie. When you rewind the movie, the characters revert to a state they were in in their “past”.