It travels forwards in time at exactly 1 second per second. The wait makes you do crazy things like: graduate highschool, get married, get a job, drink your first beer, regret not going to college, get fired, get a divorce, get drunk. Time travel is a bitch just like my alimony.

Oh, so it only goes one way and he was stranded in an alien future, far from everything he knew while falling into a spiral of despair?

:'c