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First, a quote (paraphrased) from Sealab 2021:
Quinn: It appears we were just thrown back in time 15 minutes.
Stormy: How did that happen?
Quinn: When Sealab exploded, it must have fractured subspace.
Stormy: Yeah! Take that, subspace!
Anyway, my understanding of time is that it is a dimension not unlike the three spatial dimensions. It is affected by gravity/acceleration the same way the other dimensions are affected.
Einstein would have called your paragraph above a "thought experiment." You may want to refer to it in that way in the future. It lends credibility. In keeping with the thought experiment motif, imagine that we readily moved both forward and backward in time, just as we do the other dimensions. Would are perception be any different? Our consciousness would also be moving backward. As would the causality in the world around us. Going forward, 1+3=4. Going backward, 4-3=1. In our mind, the effect is the exact same: One earliest, then three, then four last.
It wobbles a feeble mind like mine.
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