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Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law?
In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related to time’s arrow. It is shown that while time’s...
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description | In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related to time’s arrow. It is shown that while time’s decrease can never occur, irreversible processes can be reversed, although with extremely low probability. Similarly, it is argued that both entropy and the Second Law are timeless, i.e., have nothing to do with either time or with time’s arrow. |
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spelling | pubmed-105276482023-09-28 Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? Ben-Naim, Arieh Entropy (Basel) Review In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related to time’s arrow. It is shown that while time’s decrease can never occur, irreversible processes can be reversed, although with extremely low probability. Similarly, it is argued that both entropy and the Second Law are timeless, i.e., have nothing to do with either time or with time’s arrow. MDPI 2023-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10527648/ /pubmed/37761595 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091297 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ben-Naim, Arieh Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title | Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title_full | Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title_fullStr | Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title_short | Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? |
title_sort | is time’s asymmetry related to irreversible processes and the second law? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10527648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761595 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091297 |
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