<p>Lets have a discussion...</p>
<p>Hawking states the following regarding his early views about the big crunch: "I began to wonder what would happen when the universe stopped exbanding and began to contract. Would we see broken cups gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to the table? Would we be able to remember tomorrow's prices and make a fortune off the stock market? It seemed to me the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it re-callapsed. If this were so, time would be backwards when the universe began to collapse. People in their contracting phrase would live their lives backward, they would die before they were born, and get younger as the universe got small again. Eventually they would return to the womb." He confesses later that he made a mistake and time would in fact not reverse. Suppose, though, that his initial hunch was true. Might it be possible that the life you're living right now is actually being played out in reverse, and how would you know one way or the other?</p>