Eli5 why time goes only in forward direction?

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Please go over whatever thermodynamics law states about entropy and arrow of time nd other shiz. I saw someone explanations online…did not understand it

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For starters, you have to realize that what most people call “Time” is really just a recognition of change. There isn’t some kind of force of time. It doesn’t really exist. What we are observing is simply change. You don’t need another force, dimension , or entity for change to happen. We can see how change happens as physics happens. So if there is no time, then there is no direction of time. There is no backward or forward. These are constructs of our minds so that we can give relevance to events. For example. Yesterday at 8:00 am, the universe was configured a certain way. Right now it is configured differently based on the laws of physics. Yesterday no longer exists and tomorrow doesn’t exist either, they are simply our recognition that the laws of physics happen and the universe will be in different configurations as physics progresses. So why doesn’t the universe run backward? There is no backward nor foreword. We made all that up. Thermodynamics and entropy are rules of the universe and that is how things change period. Things can’t run backwards in the way you view that because that’s not how physics work.

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