Time

For all of history(which we will get to later), people have wondered if they could travel time, as long as there has been a past, people have wanted to live in it. As long as there will be a future, people will dream of it. But what is time? That seems to be a question capable of capturing minds and driving philosophy forward. Why is that question different from "What is distance?"? Is it just because with distance I can always go back? Many great thinkers claim that "Time is a curve, that lays thread in an ever-growing ball". If that is true, then each geometric point is actually a line, a temporal line. This would mean that each geometric line is a temoral plane, and each geometric plane is a temporal...cube? This temporal cube would consist of x, y and t(A variable I have chosen to be the time of occurence). That is easy to wrap your mind around because it's just layers of physical reality. But when we throw z into the equation,