Memory Systems, the Epistemic Arrow of Time, and the Second Law [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 The epistemic arrow of time is the fact that our knowledge of the past seems to be both of a different kind and more detailed than our knowledge of the future. Just like with the other arrows of time, it has often been speculated that the epistemic arrow
David H. Wolpert, Jens Kipper
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Gravitational Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics [PDF]
Entropy, 2015 The spontaneous violation of Lorentz and diffeomorphism invariance in a phase near the big bang lowers the entropy, allowing for an arrow of time and the second law of thermodynamics. The spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to
John W. Moffat
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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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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019 Using the Klauder enhanced quantization to specify the cosmological constant as a baseline for the mass of a graviton, we eventually develop with an initial degrees of freedom argument of about 1000, instead of 100 or so, implying no quantum fluctuations
Andrew Beckwith
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Pre-bangian origin of our entropy and time arrow [PDF]
, 1999 I argue that, in the chaotic version of string cosmology proposed recently, classical and quantum effects generate, at the time of exit to radiation, the correct amount of entropy to saturate a Hubble (or holography) entropy bound (HEB) and to identify ...
Veneziano, G.
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Is the hypothesis about a low entropy initial state of the Universe necessary for explaining the arrow of time? [PDF]
, 2016 According to statistical mechanics, micro-states of an isolated physical system (say, a gas in a box) at time t0 in a given macro-state of less-than-maximal entropy typically evolve in such a way that the entropy at time t increases with jt t0j in both ...
Sheldon Goldstein +2 more
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Entropy, biological evolution and the psychological arrow of time [PDF]
, 2014 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.
Torsten Heinrich +2 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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Perception, Cognition and Thought: Part V Entropy, the Arrow of Time and the Present [PDF]
Cancer Investigation, 2023 Gary H. Lyman +2 more
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Entropy and the arrow of time in population dynamics [PDF]
Biosyst., 2022 Diogo Costa-Cabanas +2 more
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