"There is a god because e = mc²"

[bheath]

It's an interesting idea. I have no clue how to approach it, but it sounds like another framing of a cyclical universe. Once past the singularity, does time move "forward"?

What does get me is that the same organism is not said to result from evolution twice. So how does that figure into a cyclical universe?

Actually, I've purposefully written my proposition to be indistinguishable from reality in any scientific sense. The redefinition of time going backwards while everything stays the way we experience it, is just an empty change of convention. But - there's a deeper idea behind that which I find endlessly fascinating, namely that it might simply be the direction of larger entropy which we perceive as the future, because our brainss can only remember into the direction of lower entropy. An old colleague of mine has written a paper with others where they argue that the timeline might approach the big bang from both sides, and the big bang being a point of low entropy, both directions on the timeline leading away from the big bang would be perceived as futures, simply because entropy is increasing away from the big bang. This way, the timeline itself could be infinite in both directions, but there would technically be two infinite futures and only a finite past. I thought that this added a very fascinating aspect to the usual discussion of past infinite time vs. a first mover and all that. These kinds of scenarios convince me again and again that the traditional philosophical approaches to these questions are way too naive.

Oh shit! We can only remember things moving away from entropy and towards singularity... Have I got the right? That's fascinating.