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If time can go faster or slower without our being conscious of it, can it also run backwards unbeknownst to us?

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  • 2 weeks ago

    Yes, absolutely. If it could do that we probably wouldn't know it, since all of our timing devices rely on time to operate and we wouldn't have a reference to compare against.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Time goes slower for a fast moving reference frame relative to another frame. This can be noticed and detected. But time never goes backward relative to any frame. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    What we can barely  see, is our getting older ....

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Time only goes faster or slower for us relative to the rest of the universe. That's a very important aspect of this. We still experiece time at the same rate, it just may not be at the same rate as everywhere/everything else. But no, time cannot elapse backwards, that's a very significant aspect of time.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Time is a concept. The "rules" of time don't allow it to go backwards.

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