Time is directed from present to future.is it a vector quantity

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Time is not considered a vector quantity because it does not have a direction in the same way that vectors do. It is always perceived as moving from the present to the future, but this does not imply a directional quality. Mathematically, time does not satisfy the properties of vector addition; instead, it involves scalar addition of individual time intervals. Therefore, time is classified as a scalar quantity rather than a vector. The discussion emphasizes the fundamental nature of time as unidirectional and scalar.
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time is directed from present to future.is it a vector quantity ?explain it pleasezzz...
 
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I don't think of time as a vector quantity, neither do I think of it as being directed anywhere. Good question though.
 


Another way to think of it is that time is always in one direction, so there is no need to mention a direction for it. Or you could look at it mathematically, for time to be a vector it should hold under vector addition, but when your adding time "vectors" its really just the addition of individual times. So its just scalar addition and hence a scalar quantity.
 

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