This is an worthwhile article if you want to check it out. interesting thread.
http://www.supercollide.com/2008/10/stubbornly-persistent-illusion.html
The truth of physics is at odds with our meager perceptions of the world. Our notion of time - seconds always receding - is not reality. As Albert Einstein famously remarked on the death of a friend:
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.