The global non-entropic arrow of time: from global geometrical asymmetry to local energy flow.
Since the nineteenth century, the problem of the arrow of time has been traditionally analyzed in terms of entropy by relating the direction past-to-future to the gradient of the entropy function of the universe. In this paper, we reject this traditional perspective and argue for a global and non-en...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 169; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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