The arrow of time

Time as a concept frustrates me. If its paradoxical qualities drive physicists batty, how can a poor boy like me be expected to understand it?

Ars Technica tries to explain in layman's terms why the arrow of time may no longer be double-sided (8/18), but of course I still don't get it.

(Hat tip: Newmark's Door)

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From the wikipedia page on time:

Among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be traveled.