Re: Unusual time / causality / worldviews (natlang/conlang)
From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
Date: | Monday, February 7, 2005, 18:58 |
> >Another that I don't actually know much about except the really
> >generic pleb's redaction is the concept that - at quantum level, or in
> >other fundamental ways - "Reality" doesn't necessarily follow our
> >linear-progression-of-time outlook. Could anyone clarify that from an
> >actual physics perspective?
Time has physical reality, and in particular there are three physical
"arrows" which tell you whether you're looking forward or backward in
time, although I only remember two at the moment:
1. entropy increases going forward, decreases going backward
2. we remember the past, but not the future
These are probably actually the same arrow; in all likelihood physics
prevents memories from being formed in the direction of increasing entropy.
-Marcos
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