I love you Ethan, but need to ask you some questions. Has the idea of the big bang creating an equal amount of of matter and antimatter been ruled out? If not, the fact that antimatter goes backwards in time would result in the matter and antimatter separating in time very quickly, resulting in there being two universes going in opposite directions in time. The search for differences of matter vs antimatter have not resulted in any differences so far, so this senario is at least plausible. This idea could completely change all of the other calculations. I, myself am not capable of evaluating these speculations, but I believe you are. I am very interested in any thoughts you have about this.