Dave Oestrich has asscertained something that is crutial here, I was going to leave this for later discussion but since he broched this I'll built on it.
Time could be described by a phisical formula and it is dependent on the path of traveling and velocity. Therefore Dave has it right, in actuality it does not progress or regress, it is a measure like there is a measure on a ruler,put the ruler onsome object to find out how much the thing is long. If it si 6 inches we understand the object is long six inches, not the ruler has progressed six inches.
It is a forth dimension and rather different than depth, width and height. But philosophically time means something else,better discribed as progression of events. Even though in actuality time canot go backwards for it goes only in pertaining to fixed events philosophically we can speculate that will go backwards.But then again we find many other obsticles, that annul the possibility of going backwards.We namely, seem to be going to future not past. If time (philosophically) went backwards, everthing would be backwards,not only your aging but you altogether experience. You would be having less knowledge by the moment, less awareness, less responsability. This cannot be proved since we grow in these things.
Therefore this thread is progressing, as time is progressing (PHILOSOPHICALLY), as any attempt to prove otherwise is inane. Dave, thank you for putting in the comment about time.
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