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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
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Arrow of Time, Entropy, and Protein Folding: Holistic View on Biochirality
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 Chirality is a universal phenomenon, embracing the space–time domains of non-organic and organic nature. The biological time arrow, evident in the aging of proteins and organisms, should be linked to the prevalent biomolecular chirality. This hypothesis drives our exploration of protein aging, in relation to the biological aging of an organism.
Vladimir N Uversky
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Two Types of Temporal Symmetry in the Laws of Nature. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)This 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.
Klimenko AY.
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Arrow of time and gravitational entropy in collapse
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 ...
Rituparno Goswami +2 more
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Entropy and the arrow of time in population dynamics
Biosystems, 2023 The concept of entropy in statistical physics is related to the existence of irreversible macroscopic processes. In this work, we explore a recently introduced entropy formula for a class of stochastic processes with more than one absorbing state that is extensively used in population genetics models.
Diogo Costa-Cabanas +2 more
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Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law?
Entropy, 2023 In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related ...
Arieh Ben-Naim
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Entropy, 2021 Causality follows the thermodynamic arrow of time, where the latter is defined by the direction of entropy increase. After a brief review of an earlier version of this article, rooted in classical mechanics, we give a quantum generalization of the ...
Lawrence S. Schulman
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Arrow(s) of Time without a Past Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2019 The paper discusses recent proposals by Carroll and Chen, as well as Barbour, Koslowski, and Mercati to explain the (thermodynamic) arrow of time without a Past Hypothesis, i.e., the assumption of a special (low-entropy) initial state of the universe ...
Lazarovici, Dustin, Reichert, Paula
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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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