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April 28, 2014

Arrow of Time Flies Both Ways. Or No Way. Or Widdershins!

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Physicists are unmasking a more fundamental source for the arrow of time:
Energy disperses and objects equilibrate, they say, because of the way elementary particles become intertwined when they interact — a strange effect called “quantum entanglement.” .... “What’s really going on is things are becoming more correlated with each other,” Lloyd recalls realizing. “The arrow of time is an arrow of increasing correlations.”
- - Simons Foundation

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 28, 2014 1:05 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Who knew that physicists would become process theologians?

Posted by: Donald Sensing at April 28, 2014 3:34 PM

OK, lemme see here. I was never any good at math but here goes:

Everything is anything and given enough time it will become everything and given more or less time it will become anything.

Like a moebus loop.

Posted by: chasmatic at April 29, 2014 11:55 AM

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