By Peter Weiss
The new millennium, or at least the new year, begins. Yet somewhere in our universe, the year 2000 may have just receded into the future, new research suggests.
Imagine a renegade world where in Reversed-Times Square, the ball moved up the tower last night instead of down and where calendars flipped back to Dec. 31, 1999, instead of ahead. Such time inconsistency from one world to another could occur even in our own galaxy, proposes Lawrence S. Schulman of Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y.