Time

Introduction
Time is defined as: the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. In physics it is the measurement of what the clock reads.

In real cosmology, time is considered the fourth dimension, and combined with the three spatial dimensions forms the model of spacetime.

While this real life model can be applied loosely to the Kthulhutuverse cosmology it is considered obsolete due to the existence of n dimensions of time and space in realities.

The purpose of this page is to provide an internally consistent (but not necessarily rigorous or correct) model of how time works in Kthulhutuverse realities.

Time Travel
Firstly to get this one out of the way: time travel as the common laymen understands it does not exist. The causality model only has a concept of present, the past can not be changed (nor could an individual point in the past be accurately derived from the present state to be travelled to) and the future does not exist yet. This means temporal paradoxes are not a problem in this model.

The randomness that governs events
Fundamentally all events your life from cradle to grave are the result of countless micro interactions at the quantum level. It's the cumulative result of these quantum events that snowball into macro events that shape the course of your life. And events at such a small scale are random. No matter how sophisticated an entity inside a reality is, it is impossible for them to accurately predict quantum phenomena.

From this we can assume that the single common cause all events share is quantum randomness (or qrng for short).

But what does this have to do with time?
Just because qrng is random to internal observers, it doesn't mean external parameters cannot affect it.