---
title: "New Theory Suggests That Two Parallel Universes Were Produced By the Big Bang"
description: "New research suggests our Universe could be moving forwards in time, while a parallel one moves backwards on the “other side” of the Big Bang."
date: "2014-12-12"
modified: "2014-12-12"
authors:
  - name: "Andreea Popescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andreeathecat"
url: "https://futurism.com/new-theory-suggests-two-parallel-universes-produced-big-bang"
categories:
  - "Astrophysics"
  - "Big Bang"
  - "Space"
---

# New Theory Suggests That Two Parallel Universes Were Produced By the Big Bang

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Universe_1024.png>)

- The root of the dilemma is the fact that all of the fundamental laws of physics - such as Einstein’s special and general relativity and Newton’s gravitation - work just as well if time is flowing forwards or backwards
- Most physicists generally accept that this is why time moves forward - because at the birth of our Universe everything was extremely ordered, and so the direction of time is the same as the direction of increasing entropy
- The new study suggests it may in fact be gravity, not thermodynamics, that controls the direction of time’s arrow.