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Originally Posted by dcl Cougar: Here [in runningn the movie backward] your answer is incorrect. We can't get anywhere near 10-43 sec. From my recent reading on the subject, many major names in the field all seem to agree on how the movie would rewind back to 1 second. dcl: I suggest you broaden your reading. There are any number of respected sources that give that 10-43 figure. That figure comes from the Standard Model of particle physics, not from accelerator experiments.

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