[jackdawjack]

string theory, if you look at it too cynically it's a high dimension optimisation process.

edit: also the headline seems a bit over-dramatic it's not running out it's slowing down.

[tybris]

> also the headline seems a bit over-dramatic it's not running out it's slowing down.

Good point. Time is only relative. I'm not sure if there would be any nasty (human) consequences to time going infinitely slow. It's still going at the same pace for the observer.

[lanaer]

Unless it actually reaches 0, rather than just asymptotically approaching it.

[gtt]

hope it won't start running in opposite direction....

[TrevorJ]

I wonder what that would do. Would we start to live in a universe where entropy was reversed?

[paulgb]

I wonder how we would even know if time was running backwards. Supposing it is even possible, couldn't time be running backwards right now and we don't know it?

[David]

I'm with you on the headline. Article doesn't explain anything about time actually stopping.

Time slowing seems like it'd be asymptotic. You should be able to have an arbitrarily large time t, where time is flowing at rate r > 0. According to my calculations, anyway. (Along the lines of: "shit, I really don't want time to stop.")