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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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