The article is just horrible because it confuses two metaphors, time “flows” and time having a spatial direction (and where that points). Time “flows” is, I think, NOT a natural metaphor, but post-Isaac Newton. Google ngram seems to confirm this. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Time+flows&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CTime%20flows%3B%2Cc0 …
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Given this confusion/ignorance the article seems like a dangerous reference...
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