2020
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Back and forth music from “I Giorni” (“The days”) by Ludovico Einaudi.

“Before the Big Bang, time did not exist. Time is a result of the expansion of the universe itself. But what will happen when the universe has finished expanding, and the movement is reversed? What will be the nature of time? […] Time, as we know it, is a dimension we experience only in one direction. But what if one of the additional dimensions wasn’t spatial, but temporal? If you mix the mashed potatoes and a sauce, you can’t separate them later. It’s forever. The smoke comes out of daddy’s cigarettes but it never goes back in. We can’t go back.”

“The universe moves towards a state of dissipation: that is the principle of entropy. The tendency of the universe to evolve towards a state of increasing disorder. The principle of entropy is related to the arrow of time, a result of the expansion of the universe. But what would happen when gravitational forces counterbalance the forces of expansion? Or if the energy of the quantum void proves too weak? At that moment, the universe might inner its phase of contraction: the Big Crunch. So what will become of time? Will it reverse? No one knows the answer.”

[from the movie “Mr.Nobody]

Evolving the complex system in an unpredictable way, what could suddenly take place, from one day to another, due to an unexpected event, is the inversion of its direction of travel.