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Fluctuation, Dissipation and the Arrow of Time [PDF]
Entropy, 2011 The recent development of the theory of fluctuation relations has led to new insights into the ever-lasting question of how irreversible behavior emerges from time-reversal symmetric microscopic dynamics.
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The length of time's arrow [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2008 An unresolved problem in physics is how the thermodynamic arrow of time arises from an underlying time reversible dynamics. We contribute to this issue by developing a measure of time-symmetry breaking, and by using the work fluctuation relations, we ...
A. S. Eddington +6 more
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A Computer’s Arrow of Time [PDF]
Entropy, 2005 Some researchers believe that the psychological or consciousness arrow of time is a consequence of the thermodynamic arrow. Some don't. As for many issues in this area, the disagreement revolves about fundamental and undebatable assumptions. As a contribution to this standoff I consider the extent to which a computer---presumably governed by nothing ...
L. S. Schulman
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Entropy, 2012 Quantum gravity, the initial low entropy state of the Universe, and the problem of time are interlocking puzzles. In this article, we address the origin of the arrow of time from a cosmological perspective motivated by a novel approach to quantum gravitation.
Jejjala, Vishnu +3 more
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Algebraical Entropy and Arrow of Time
Entropy, 2022 Usually, it is supposed that irreversibility of time appears only in macrophysics. Here, we attempt to introduce the microphysical arrow of time assuming that at a fundamental level nature could be non-associative.
Merab Gogberashvili
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Supernovae and the Arrow of Time
Entropy, 2022 Supernovae are explosions of stars and are a central problem in astrophysics. Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities develop during the star’s explosion and lead to intense interfacial RT/RM mixing of the star materials.
Snezhana I. Abarzhi +4 more
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String theory and the arrow of time
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 Time-like linear dilaton triggers, at the classical level, the creation of closed folded strings at an instant. We show that in cosmology these instant folded strings induce negative pressure at no energy cost.
Nissan Itzhaki
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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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Remarks on the Compatibility of Opposite Arrows of Time
Entropy, 2005 : I argue that opposite arrows of time, while being logically possible, cannot realistically be assumed to exist during one and the same epoch of our universe.
H. D. Zeh
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Time, the Arrow of Time, and Quantum Mechanics
Frontiers in Physics, 2018 It is brought forward that viable theories of the physical world that have no variable at all that can play the role of time, do not exist; some notion of time is one of the very first ingredients a candidate theory should possess.
Gerard 't Hooft
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