--- In [email protected], "Hugo" <fintlewoodle...@...> wrote: > > Saying it with authority might be tricky as there are > several ways it could have happened, Hawking's idea > involves two universes with time running in opposite > directions, which should drive any theologians crazy as > it forms no part of any explanation they've ever come up > with.
Cool. In our universe, we're living out the sequential, time-running-forward plots of 99.99% of the movies ever made. In the other universe, it's more like Christopher Nolan's brilliant "Memento." If you haven't seen it, Guy Pearce's character has a real- life problem (meaning that it exists) -- he is unable to form short-term memories. Thus he must go through his life writing notes to himself, because in two minutes he won't remember what it is he's writing, or that what he writes about ever happened. Add to this the fact that the whole film is told backwards, starting from the end and moving to the beginning, and you have yerself one heckuva Quantum Tunneling movie. Not quite, of course, but as close as we can probably come to imagining life in this other "back- wards time" universe.
