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Mr. Nobody's quantum physics

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    what was there before the big bang?
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    well, you see
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    there was no before
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    because before the big bang
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    time did not exist
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    Time is
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    a result of the expansion
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    of the universe itself
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    but what will happen
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    when the universe has finished
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    expanding
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    and the movement is reversed?
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    What will be the nature of time?
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    If string theory is correct
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    the universe possesses
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    nine spatial dimensions
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    and one temporal dimension
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    we can imagine that in the beginning
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    all the dimensions were twisted together
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    during the big bang
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    three spatial dimensions
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    the one that we know
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    is height width and depth
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    and one temporal dimension
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    what we know is time
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    redeployed
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    The other six remained minuscule
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    one and together
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    If we are living in a universe of
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    one dimension
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    How we distinguish between
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    illusion and reality?
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    Time as we know it
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    is a dimension we experience
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    only in one direction
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    but what about the addition
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    of others dimensions
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    was not special
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    the temporal
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    if you mix the mashed potatoes
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    and sauce
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    you can't separate
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    them later
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    It's forever
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    The smoke comes out
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    the daddy's cigarette
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    but it's never going back in
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    We cannot going back
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    That's why it's hard to choose
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    You have to make the right choice
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    As soon as you don't choose
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    everything remains possible
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    Why does cigarette smoke
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    never go back into the cigarette?
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    Why do molecules
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    spread away from each other?
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    Why does the drop of ink
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    never reform?
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    Because the universe
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    moves towards
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    a state of dissipation
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    That is the principle of entropy
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    the tendency of the universe
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    to evolve to a state
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    of increasing disorder
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    The principle of entropy
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    is related
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    to the arrow of time
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    A result of the expansion
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    of the universe
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    but what will happen
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    in gravitation or forces
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    cannot balance
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    the forces of expansion?
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    Or if energy of the quantum void
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    proves to weak?
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    At that moment
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    the universe might enter
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    in a phase of contraction
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    the big crunch!
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    So what becomes of time?
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    Will it reverse?
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    No one knows the answer!
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Mr. Nobody's quantum physics
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