Viewed from the perspective of this matter, the concepts of an expanding and contracting universe would be reversed from our customary experience. Typically, physics says this isn't allowed. A person in either system would view a person in one with an opposite arrow as getting younger, from his or her own perspective. He's probably wrong. He's piled speculation upon speculation.
Physics thrives on teasing apart outrageous and delicious paradoxes.
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