Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?


	Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?

arifsali

5-21-2008 7:10 PM

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5-22-2008 1:51 PM

Mohir

if time runs backwards in another universe, wouldn't if be forward for them?

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