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19950 | Entropy is the only time-asymmetric law, so time may be linked to entropy [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: All our physical laws are time-symmetric, ...so things can run forwards or backwards. But entropy is an exception, saying that disorder increases over time. Many physicists therefore suspect that the flow of time is linked to entropy. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2017.02.04) |