From my Quora answer:
Time is not an active player in the Universe; that is, time does not do things to physical matter or space. Time is an observation of what physical matter and space does. Physical matter endures, and we map this endurance as time.
Time is not a conveyor belt that pushes physical matter into change, and neither does time move consciousness passed an infinite number of static, physical Universes and in chronological order.
The only thing that physically changes is the physical matter in the present moment. There is no physical matter in the past, and there is no physical matter in the future. Change only occurs right here, and right now.
It is the half-spin nature of physical matter that causes physical matter to spin in the forward time direction, even while physical matter is rooted in the present moment.
