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Single Idea 19951

[from 'New Scientist articles' by New Scientist writers, in 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow ]

Full Idea

Smolin observes that if entropy increases, the early universe must have been highly ordered, which we cannot explain. Maybe we need to build time directionality into the laws, instead of making time depend on entropy.

Gist of Idea

Entropy is puzzling, so we may need to build new laws which include time directionality

Source

New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2017.02.04)

Book Reference

-: 'New Scientist magazine' [ 2013], p.31


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