There is no straight arrow here. There is a kind of recurring time loop, a constant return to the past in order to reassess and recalibrate the present toward a different kind of future.
Jeffrey J. Kripal • The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained Is Real
Time, and how we experience time, is always a cultural creation. Most cultures are taught—to put this very simply—that time is circular. Subsequently, you can see the world being played out in a circular way. What’s interesting about Western cultures is, at some point, we said, “You know what? We’re not circular. We’re an arrow. We’re not looking
... See moreDebbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
The claim attributed to "Julian Barber" refers to the work of the British physicist Julian Barbour (not Barber), who has proposed a radical theory that the Big Bang created two "mirror" universes with opposite arrows of time. This does not mean that time within our own universe is flowing backward, but rather that a separate, unobservable universe... See more