When people talk about "time flowing backward" or "moving through time" what they are really meaning is "I want to step outside this point of reference (time) as if it no longer effects me and then step back in at another point". This doesn't work with any other dimension so why should it work with time? In fact it contradicts the meaning of "dimension". If you move to the left you end up to the left and you also have to pass all the points in between in that journey to the left. If you ended up to the right or didn't pass the points in between that wouldn't make sense. Time, as a dimension should be the same. If you go forward you experience it forward. If you go backward YOU CAN'T TELL because you would experience it backwards (unexperience it). Going backwards and thinking you could experience it forward doesn't make sense. Time may flow backward but we won't notice it because we would be going backwards with it.
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When people talk about "time flowing backward" or "moving through time" what they are really meaning is "I want to step outside this point of reference (time) as if it no longer effects me and then step back in at another point". This doesn't work with any other dimension so why should it work with time? In fact it contradicts the meaning of "dimension". If you move to the left you end up to the left and you also have to pass all the points in between in that journey to the left. If you ended up to the right or didn't pass the points in between that wouldn't make sense. Time, as a dimension should be the same. If you go forward you experience it forward. If you go backward YOU CAN'T TELL because you would experience it backwards (unexperience it). Going backwards and thinking you could experience it forward doesn't make sense. Time may flow backward but we won't notice it because we would be going backwards with it.