In the end of the universe, will time go backwards

I hear that time proceeds as the universe expands,
so will time go backwards at the end of the universe when it contracts?

After many decades of discussion and reasoning,
not to mention superheated debate,
the leading theoretical and scientific minds
seem to have concluded that time will probably not reverse.

Well....
The arrow of time is the direction in which entropy increases (or so we think / say / conduct ourselves).
So if the "end of the universe" is the heat death proposed by Hawking and many others, in which all matter in the universe is distributed in an even and essentially homogeneous way.. The arrow will come to rest, and time will stop. It will not go backwards, unless entropy begins to decrease.

But.. who knows really? Its all pure speculation.

The "Big Crunch" was discredited years ago and the expansion of the universe is not time itself, so no, time will continue forward.

No. Just because a tree dies doen't mean it shrinks. No reason to believe the universe is any different to anything else that grows and expands.

There really is no such thing as "time" it's nothing but an illusion like my man Einstein said.

No one can know for sur we just have to wait and see I bet scientist r probably wondering the same thing