Now I am going to raise two seldom asked but salient questions.

First, why did God make a world with three dimensions of space but only one dimension of time?  Why not three time dimensions and only one space dimension?  Or why not an equipartition, with two space and two time dimensions?

Second, why is it possible for you to move at will backward and forward (left and right) in the three space dimensions, while you are relentlessly and without choice drawn by the current of time in only one direction?

In The Beginning

The myth can be made to suggest answers to these questions.  In the beginning God created four dimensions.  They were all alike and indistinguishable from each other.  And then God embedded atoms of energy (photons, leptons, etc.) in the four dimensions.  By virtue of their energy, these atoms moved through the four dimensions at the speed of light, the only spacetime speed.  Thus, as perceived by any one of these atoms, space contracted in, and only in, the direction of that particular atom's motion.

As the atoms moved at the speed of light, space contracted so much in the direction of the atom's motion that the dimensions in that direction vanished.  That left only three dimensions of space--all perpendicular to the atom's direction of motion--and the ghost of the lost fourth dimension, which makes itself felt as the current of time.

Now atoms moving in different directions cannot share the same directional flow of time.  Each takes the particular current it perceives as the proper measure of time.  The world we mortals measure is only the shadow, the projection, of another world--the real four-dimensional world.  Moreover, if you comprehend the shape and orientation of things in the real world, it is not difficult to figure out how their shadows will seem when cast upon our world.