Space and Time and a Random Thought

We’re all hanging around in some kind of 3 dimensional space.  Depending on who you talk to, there may be a few more hidden dimensions hanging out there that we don’t quite know how to see or experience yet.

Then there is time.  We are constantly moving forward through space and know that it exists backwards even though we can’t go back to prove it.  That leaves us with basically a 4 dimensional existence (and maybe more if those hidden dimensions are real).

So, I had a thought.  A stupid thought, but fun to place with nonetheless.

What if time is not really a dimension or entity that we pass through but rather a force that pulls us continuously forward.  A one dimensional, constantly applied force.

I’m not much of a math guy anymore so I have no idea how to even play with some of the numbers to see what that would do to some of the basic equations of physics.  I’m sure it would do all sorts of bad things but it is kind of fun to play with absurd thoughts like that once in a while.  And back in the dark ages people created all kinds of funky things to explain the force of gravity before they understood what gravity was.  Maybe 1000 years from now, the future nerds will think about how quaint it was that we couldn’t figure out that time was just some kind of force.