The new hypothesis comes from experts who study symmetries in nature and space, and the current research addresses the basics of symmetry in nature – the most important of which are charge, parity and time.
The paper argues that the way we understand the world and the wider universe around us, moving forward in time, must also expand.
According to Live Science, new research recently accepted for publication in the Annals of Physics suggests that there is a combinatorial symmetry to the entire universe. As research confirms, the early universe was so uniform that time flows symmetrically back and forth. It is argued that the way we understand the world and the wider universe around us, moving forward in time, must also be expanded to include a ‘mirror’ version that implies time ‘backwards’.
The new research may also offer a deeper understanding of dark matter. The theory suggests that it is an invisible particle that interacts only with gravity and that provides electron-neutrino, muon-neutrino and tau-neutrino (subatomic particles) pairing. Research suggests that conditions in a “mirror universe,” where time flows backwards, would be full of these paired neutrinos, which would represent dark matter. Of course, we could never experience time flowing backwards, even if it definitely existed, but it’s still a pretty interesting theory.