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Time in Reverse: Dark Energy Saves the Universe from Exploding ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Geodesic completion of big bangs from emergent geometry"
arXiv:2602.21642 · 2026-02-25 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity HEP Theory
A special dark energy can turn time backward and replace the Big Bang with an elastic bounce.
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Time can flow backward — and that saves the Universe! Scientists have discovered that a special dark energy, like an invisible spring, reverses time for matter at the moment of maximum contraction. Instead of a Big Bang — a gentle bounce, without infinities. The cosmos might have many such lives.

🎯 To an outside observer, the bounce would seem like a moment of silence: the universe contracts, freezes for an instant, and then blossoms anew. But within that pause lurks an entire epoch lived in reverse.

🎬 Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' is almost a perfect model: time moves backward, only not to save the universe but for spy missions.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
Tags
dark energy expansion of the universe big bang spacetime curvature speed of light
Laws
Friedmann equationsHubble's lawDoppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightmass–energy equivalenceEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2602.21642 · CC BY · bridge42worlds