How do you distinguish between history, present, and future? Is there really an order to time? Does it only move forward? Does it move in any direction at all?

Stop the timepiece. Abandon all hypotheticals. And try to stay calm.
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In 1915, Albert Einstein published his general proposition of reciprocity which changed, changes, will change the way we perceive time.
In this groundbreaking proposition, he proposed that the laws of drugs are the same for allnon-accelerating spectators. This principally explains why, if you were to watch a auto drive past you, you would interpret the auto’s passengers as moving at the same speed as the auto, since their speed is relative to your position as an bystander on still ground.
Meanwhile, inside the auto, the passengers feel like stationary objects, since their stir matches the auto’s stir, relative to the outside world. But while Einstein’s proposition of relative stir could be applied to all objects in the macrocosm, he also realized that one exception to reciprocity was light.

Light always moves at a constant speed. These two principles led Einstein to conceive of a link between time and space, also known as spacetime.
And one of its tricky counteraccusations is that the perception of how time passes can be different between two spectators depending on how important briskly one is moving compared to the other. So, if it’s possible for two spectators to have two accurate perspectives of time’s end, but for those perspectives to be different, whose timepiece is right, and whose is wrong?

Oddly enough, they ’re both right. After all, the fact that different time zones live are enough evidence that your watch and someone’s watch across the world will read different times every second of the day.
We ’re inclined to suppose of the end of time as objective or universal, since humans have each more or less agreed on the same system to organize our busy lives, and to be on the same runner with our neighbors – either coming door, or a many countries over!
But while time is a accessible tool for keeping track of the history, present, and future, the true nature of time is trickier to grasp once you realize that the history, present, and future could all live at formerly.

When you look up at the sky, you might be suitable to point out Proxima Centauri. After the Sun, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth, and it’s only about 4 light times down. So the light you see now, is actually 4 times old in ourtime.However, we would n’t know about it until 4 times latterly, If Proxima Centauri exploded. That’s because the speed of light is constant, no matter where you're in the macrocosm!

Another thing you need to know is that the briskly you move, the slower time does. This explains how astronaut Scott Kelly spent a time in space and came back to Earth 13 milliseconds youngish than his twin.
Now, with these two exemplifications, let’s put an astronaut on a earth that’s 4 light times down. That means that his present is unfolding 4 times ahead of you. Anything you do now on Earth is formerly in his history. Put simply, the history, present, and future all live at formerly.

Now, before you have an empirical extremity, there’s a proposition that might make living in the history, present, and future all at formerly, a little easier. It’s called moving limelight proposition, and it principally argues that there's only one absolute present, which changes moment by moment as if a limelight is moving over it.

So with that information, you can begin to see how the passage of time might be an vision. There's no single ideal history, objective present, and objective future, but the vision of similar is drafted by our recollections, and our gests, and our forthcoming plans, which help us organize our lives into a neat sequence of events. But depending on where you are, or how presto you ’re moving, that sequence will be veritably, veritably different.
So whether you ’re New Age or nostalgic, or if you just prefer the present moment; do n’t worry, there’s a place for you … nearly in the macrocosm … it might take you hundreds of times to get there, but if you move presto enough, you ’ll get there in no time!