you were able to move through time faster than the consistent tempo of each second?
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the theory in quantum mechanics that time follows the same rules back and forth
You don't need to go to quantum mechanics, you see it in classical mechanics as well. For example, if you write the relationship between the velocity, distance travelled and time for a car travelling on a road at constant velocity, that mathematical relation won't tell you if time is moving forward or backward. So it's not something overly complicated; it's simply because who thought of those relationships didn't care if time was moving in one direction or another, it was a non-issue.
Pretty much all basic quantum mechanics goes that way, because it's not their purpose to follow causality; that's not the primary concern of those theories. You can think of theories which incorporate causality if you want to, but remember that after you think of them you have to check them against experiment to see if they're valid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b240PGCMw…