Moving in Time

Spacetime is like a movie reel, or better a stack of pictures on top of one another. Time is just a way of labelling the individual frames or pictures, and the word “move” just means to have different coordinates in space at different times ie to be at different places in different pictures. It doesn’t make sense to ask for the image of something in one picture to be in a different picture.

Source: (1001) Alan Cooper’s answer to If time is the 4th dimension, why can’t anything move in either direction like the other 3 axes? – Quora

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