Temporal Asymmetry, Entropic Irreversibility, and Finite-Time Thermodynamics: From Parmenides–Einstein Time-Reversal Symmetry to the Heraclitan Entropic Arrow of Time [PDF]
Entropy, 2012 In this paper, we combine the two universalisms of thermodynamics and dynamical systems theory to develop a dynamical system formalism for classical thermodynamics. Specifically, using a compartmental dynamical system energy flow model we develop a state-
Wassim M. Haddad
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Arrow of time and gravitational entropy in collapse [PDF]
Classical and Quantum GravityAbstract We investigate the status of the gravitational arrow of time in the case of a spherical collapse of a fluid that conducts heat and radiates energy. In particular, we examine the results obtained by W. B. Bonnor in his 1985 paper where he found that the gravitational arrow of time was opposite to the thermodynamic arrow of time ...
Samarjit Chakraborty +3 more
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Pre-Big-Bang Black-Hole Remnants and Past Low Entropy
Universe, 2018 Dark matter could be composed by black-hole remnants formed before the big-bang era in a bouncing cosmology. This hypothetical scenario has implications on the issue of the arrow of time: it upsets a common attribution of past low entropy to the state of
Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto
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Entropy, Biological Evolution and the Psychological Arrow of Time
Journal of Modern Physics, 2016 We argue that in Universes where future and past differ only by the entropy content a psychological arrow of time pointing in the direction of entropy increase can arise from natural selection in biological evolution. We show that this effect can be demonstrated in very simple toy computer simulations of evolution in an entropy increasing or decreasing
Torsten Heinrich +2 more
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Two Types of Temporal Symmetry in the Laws of Nature [PDF]
EntropyThis work explores the implications of assuming time symmetry and applying bridge-type, time-symmetric temporal boundary conditions to deterministic laws of nature with random components.
A. Y. Klimenko
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Complex Time Approach to the Hamiltonian and the Entropy Production of the Damped Harmonic Oscillator [PDF]
EntropyThe present work applies and extends the previously developed Quantitative Geometrical Thermodynamics (QGT) formalism to the derivation of a Hamiltonian for the damped harmonic oscillator (DHO) across all damping regimes.
Kyriaki-Evangelia Aslani
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Comment on "Entropy production and the arrow of time"
, 2007 J.M.R. Parrondo at al. in arXiv:0904.1573 continue numerous efforts to unify the concepts of the arrow of time and entropy production with the concept of time invariance in physics. This is a wrong way.
V. A. Kuz’menko
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The Maximum Entropy Principle in the Absence of a Time-Arrow: Fractional-Pole Models [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2007 The maximum entropy (ME) principle, as it is often invoked in the context of time-series analysis, suggests the selection of a power spectrum which is consistent with autocorrelation data and corresponds to a random process least predictable from past observations. We introduce and compare a class of spectra with the property that the underlying random
Tryphon T. Georgiou
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Arrow of time: Metaphorical construals of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
Science Education, 2012 AbstractVarious features of scientific discourse have been characterized in the science education literature, and challenges students face in appropriating these features have been explored. Using the framework of conceptual metaphor, this paper sought to identify explicit and implicit metaphors in pedagogical texts dealing with the concept of entropy ...
Tamer G. Amin +3 more
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Is the hypothesis about a low entropy initial state of the Universe necessary for explaining the arrow of time? [PDF]
Physical Review D, 2016 14 pages LaTeX, 3 figures; v2: first paragraph added, section 8 added, 9 references added; v3: further references ...
Sheldon Goldstein +2 more
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