is my theory on time possible?

Question

My theory on time is that I believe that the forward movement of time is an illusion...sort of like trying to walk up a down esculator. We sense that we are moving forward but we are actually moving backwards. Time is like a plat form that all the events have already happened and we move from one to another. I believe this may explain why time travel, light speed travel to the stars, and contact with other life forms will never happen because according to my theory they would have already have happen. I think that the forward movement of time is a trick god plays on us to keep us from understanding the true nature of the universe.

Answer 1

Nice theory that has many pitfalls. For one, your theory assume that all life had lived in the past and never survived to join us in the universe today. This is why, according to you, we can travel backward to catch-up to those lifeforms, but cannot visit them in our time today. Even though, we think we are traveling forward we really are traveling backward.
Secondly, how does this theory explain events, as you know events produce an outcome which leads to other events. So you are saying the outcome will be seen before the event took place, and that event will happen before the event that caused it to occur has even happened.
If we are truly travelling backward in time, then to strike a match means the fire will be seen before you strike the match...
Just like your message will have appeard on the internet before you sat down at your computer and typed it, or even thought of your theory...
Your theory does not allow for time travel, but reverses the direction by which time travels, that is where it is totally rediculous to believe it could even be possible. It defies all that had been learned from modern times beyond the days of the ancients.
Better rethink how willing you are to support such a theory.

Answer 2

No, it's not possilbe. It is due to the fat that time travel is not possible, only forwards, so if time is moving backwards, it cannot go forwards, it is not really a sound theory, you merely reverse the backwards for forwards.

The true nature of the universe you propose is that the big bang is actually the end of the unverse, while the current trend of repulsive expansion is actually a movement in the opposite direction, or attraction, being the reason that the big bang happened. Why would it be so?

Answer 3

A scientific theory has a characteristic that seems to be missing from the concept you present. A scientific theory is capable of being disproved. The way you have described time does not seem to lend itself to any conceivable method of disproving it. Newtonian Physics predicted many things. Most of the predictions seemed consistent with actual observations. A few observations were not the results predicted by Newtonian Physics. It was due to these observations that people who came after Newton were able to determine that Newtonian Physics does not explain the way the universe works. There is a line from Shakespeare that goes something like. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy. The models we make are not the thing itself.

Answer 4

This question begs a larger one. Time as we describe it is a man-made concept. Its a man made measurement, no different than cc's or pounds. Any misgivings or shortcomings of 'our' time theory may not accurately or completely approximate reality. Are puny minds think of time as logical because our existence is finite. Basically, Einstein with his theory of special relativity is saying just that, we got time wrong. Thats why the astronaut traveling and 90% the speed of light doesn't age as quickly, or feel the effects fo time, as the astronaut on the ground. In case you wondered, this has been proven. Identical cesium beam light clocks were synchronized, one sat in a box, one on a simple airplane that flew thousands of miles at about mach 1. When compared, the clock on the ground indicated that more time had passed than the one in the plane!!!!!