More Entropy
Today is not a good day for writing. Want to enslave self to writing habit. Will make better and cause learning of how words work. Have found good review of thermodynamic asymmetry in time by a philosopher at stanford. So my puzzlement at Albrecht's airieness about what Boltzmann taught us is justified -if I am to trust a philosopher.
B-Man posited what is known as the "Past Hypothesis" where initial conditions give rise to the one way street. However there appears to be much dissatisfaction with this idea. Mainly because:
A) it really doesnt explain thermodynamic behavior,
B) the same reason entropy increases -its likelyhood- makes this initial condition highly unlikely (a good example of physicists as contortionists),
C) One cannot generate a Law from this supposition because 1) the evidence is erased -except for the eraser- and 2) by definition, it is not repeatable
D) It is unsavory. (this is sort of my summary of the between the lines...)
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B-Man posited what is known as the "Past Hypothesis" where initial conditions give rise to the one way street. However there appears to be much dissatisfaction with this idea. Mainly because:
A) it really doesnt explain thermodynamic behavior,
B) the same reason entropy increases -its likelyhood- makes this initial condition highly unlikely (a good example of physicists as contortionists),
C) One cannot generate a Law from this supposition because 1) the evidence is erased -except for the eraser- and 2) by definition, it is not repeatable
D) It is unsavory. (this is sort of my summary of the between the lines...)
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Labels: Entropy, Time's Arrow
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