If time is a dimension, why can you only go in one direction?

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I get that there are 3 dimensions of space and only one dimension of time, but it still seems like you should be able to go both forward and backward. It’s like if you had a 1-dimensional space (which I assume would be an infinitely thin line, correct me if I’m wrong) you could still go both left and right.

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That is how it is for us and how we exist. Perhaps some other intelligent beings can see all time from start to end like an open book and could interact with time at any point. But that is not how it works for us. We exist within the rules of our own dimentions. It is like how a cartoon character doesn’t leave the paper it exists in.

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