We all know that the universe is expanding. What, however, would happen if the universe began to contract? Some say that time would go backwards! For example:
"In a universe in which time goes backwards, we would see broken tea cups on the floor gathering together up onto a table to form a whole cup. People would remember events in the future, but would be unaware of the past."
Here is one writer's conception:
"Everyone was crying. The tears welled out of their handkerchiefs and ran into their eyes. They walked backward up to the grave, where the casket was slowly brought up. The body was taken home and laid in bed. As soon as the priest left, the body began breathing. The antiman and his antiwife lived backward together for 30 years. On their wedding day they took dirty clothes out of the hamper, went to church together. After the service they saw each other a few times, but then knew no longer of the other's existence. The antiman went to college, where he unlearned a great deal. He had a good knowledge of calculus, but after completing the course he knew nothing at all about it. Homework consisted of receiving papers from the teacher, which he erased, using the point of his pencil. He met his parents, and eventually stopped walking. He lay in a crib, where his mother would bring empty bottles of milk, which he would fill from his mouth. His body took in excrement from the dirty diapers which his mother put on him. Things got calmer and hazier until on one joyful day he went to the hospital with his mother, where the doctor helped him to get inside her womb. There he slowly dissolved and in nine months he ceased to exist."
| - from a book by Rudy Rucker |
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