[afterthefact]

I like to think of time as a physical dimension, much like length, width, and height. We can't understand it because we don't know what it would look like, but I like to imagine that if you had the ability to see it as it truly is, you could see the beginning and end of an object in time just as you could see it in space. Kind of like how the aliens in Slaughterhouse Five saw humans, like big caterpillars with a baby form at one end, an old man at the other, and every stage in between... in between. Except not so literal in a way that we can understand. Like you could see a chair sitting in a room; you could see how tall it was, how long it was, how deep it was, and it's entire duration.

Something like that anyway.