In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.