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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...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 169; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
Main Authors: Castagnino, Mario, Lombardi, Olimpia
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jul2009
Subjects:
Thermodynamics
Information theory
Nineteenth century
Time
Metaphysical cosmology
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