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Machine learning the thermodynamic arrow of time [PDF]
Nature Physics, 2019 The asymmetry in the flow of events that is expressed by the phrase ‘time’s arrow’ traces back to the second law of thermodynamics. In the microscopic regime, fluctuations prevent us from discerning the direction of time’s arrow with certainty.
Alireza Seif, M. Hafezi, C. Jarzynski
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The Arrow of Time: Can Time be Reversed?
International journal of multidisciplinary research and analysis, 2021 In the year 1928, Arthur Eddington, a British physicist, first introduced the word “time’s arrow” to physics. He believed that the arrow of time is vividly recognized by consciousness and insisted that the reversal of this arrow would render the physical
Garima Yadav
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The Contractual Cryptoeconomy: An Arrow of Time for Economics
The Journal of The British Blockchain Association, 2019 We consider the potential blockchains have for building a framework for all manner of contracts that can characterize an economy using the unifying idea of control over their duration. Such a contractual cryptoeconomy (CCE)
Prateek Goorha
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Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics
Entropy, 2012 I defend the idea that the fact that no system is entirely isolated (“Interventionism”) can be used to explain the successful use of the microcanonical distribution in statistical mechanics.
Stephen Leeds
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Discovering the Arrow of Time in Machine Learning
Information, 2021 Machine learning (ML) is increasingly useful as data grow in volume and accessibility. ML can perform tasks (e.g., categorisation, decision making, anomaly detection, etc.) through experience and without explicit instruction, even when the data are too ...
J. Kasmire, Anran Zhao
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The Universal Arrow of Time [PDF]
Foundations of Physics, 2012 Statistical physics cannot explain why a thermodynamic arrow of time exists, unless one postulates very special and unnatural initial conditions. Yet, we argue that statistical physics can explain why the thermodynamic arrow of time is universal, i.e., why the arrow points in the same direction everywhere.
Kupervasser, Oleg +2 more
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Probability, Arrow of Time and Decoherence [PDF]
, 2006 This paper relates both to the metaphysics of probability and to the physics of time asymmetry. Using the formalism of decoherent histories, it investigates whether intuitions about intrinsic time directedness that are often associated with probability ...
Bacciagaluppi, Guido
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Biological arrow of time: emergence of tangled information hierarchies and self-modelling dynamics [PDF]
Journal of Physics: ComplexityWe study open-ended evolution by focusing on computational and information-processing dynamics underlying major evolutionary transitions. In doing so, we consider biological organisms as hierarchical dynamical systems that generate regularities in their ...
M. Prokopenko +8 more
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Gravitational Entropy and Inflation
Entropy, 2013 The main topic of this paper is a description of the generation of entropy at the end of the inflationary era. As a generalization of the present standard model of the Universe dominated by pressureless dust and a Lorentz invariant vacuum energy (LIVE ...
Øystein Elgarøy, Øyvind Grøn
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Wormholes and the thermodynamic arrow of time
Physical Review Research, 2020 In classical thermodynamics, heat cannot spontaneously pass from a colder system to a hotter system, which is called the thermodynamic arrow of time. However, if the initial states are entangled, the direction of the thermodynamic arrow of time may not ...
Zhuo-Yu Xian, Long Zhao
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