Other researchers are working on related ideas, as more and more cosmologists are taking seriously the problem posed by the arrow of time. It is easy enough to observe the arrow—all you have to do is mix a little milk into your coffee. While sipping it, you can contemplate how that simple act can be traced all the way back to the beginning of our observable universe and perhaps beyond

Isn't the big bang just a Black Hole-singularity, in reverse?

Dear me before the big bang,,very challenging no string theory,Mmmm wellcome was fascinating 2000 years of human culture, but challenging the logic of ashes to ashes dust minerals reforming changing state back to a flower.Or matter still fact is stranger than fiction you take one to the outer limits,if the impossible is possible, more coffee!This cant involve life impossible princess, the sceptics voiced.

Pumpkin? Me don't know about time running backwards but I do knows about when it's time for bad company to go home

@debbyski,s Bad company go home? Never assume the obvious is true, what is good and beautiful?what is truth? What do you mean? That third parties can interfer in an others enlightenment and thoughts, but then you wont keep yours to yourself so I,ll take it you wish me to leave "your " internet.

Just joking Chedare; it is an effective coping mechanism for stress baby

Laws are derived from observation, observation is derived from cognition. The Huddersfield pensioners' rap version of a medley of Rolf Harris songs is very effective.

Yeesh. That popping sound you just heard was my mind exploding.

Our universe may be part of a much larger multi verse, which as a whole is time-symmetric. Time may run backward in other universes. If quantum fluctuations could create new universes, they could also create many other things.