Weinert, Friedel (2013) The Past-Future Asymmetry. [Preprint]
Abstract
As the past-future asymmetry – that fact that we have records of the past but not the future – is still a puzzle the aim of this paper is twofold: a) to explain the asymmetry and its status in philosophy and physics and to critically review the proposed solutions to this puzzle; b) to advance a dynamic solution to the puzzle (which is lacking in alternative proposals) in terms of the ‘universality’ of the entropy relation in statistical mechanics.
| Item Type: | Preprint |
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| Keywords: | Asymmetry, block universe, decoherence, entropy, order/disorder, phase space, spreading, theory of relativity, thermodynamics, thermodynamic probability, time travel |
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| Subjects: | General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Friedel Weinert |
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| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2013 10:08 |
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| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2013 10:08 |
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| Item ID: | 9598 |
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| Official URL: | htpp://www.brill.com/ |
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| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9598 |
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