Symmetry of the Time Axis and Solar Observations

Abstract

I SHOULD like to offer two comments on Stannard's¹ recent interesting postulate that there exists a counter-world to compensate for the asymmetries of nature that we find in our own world. The first comment proposes that observations do not exist to support his postulate, but that the counter-world suggested by the observations is of a somewhat different character. The second is a reconciliation between the two possible counter-worlds; Stannard proposes to add the faustian world to the present laws of physics to eliminate the asymmetries, whereas the observations suggest that the present asymmetries of physics have arisen because the present physical laws reflect an observation of the faustian world. In particular, our present physical laws could be said to be based on the assumption that the faustian universe is a contracting universe.