Post by Joel Olsonhttp://www.rdmag.com/news/2012/11/paradigm-shift-offers-new-look-beginning-time?et_cid=2970881&et_rid=264725659&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fnews%2f2012%2f11%2fparadigm-shift-offers-new-look-beginning-time
I liked that. The fact (?) that the Universe is expanding faster and faster
must make the Big Bounce Theory moot, one would think.
OK, like the Kobayashi Maru, you must change the rules to win. If we
postulate "inflation", a sudden speed-up of expansion, perhaps we could
postulate "anti-inflation", a sudden slow-down of expansion, allowing
eventual contraction and a Big Bounce. Perhaps that will happen when the
First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics no longer work, a dynamic of the
quantum nature of everything, where relativity no longer controls.
I would like to see how time works during the Big Crunch. Backwards?
Time flies like a thumb in the eye,
Fruit flies like a thumbleberry pie.