idea
The arrow of time
Most basic laws of physics work the same running forward or backward. Yet eggs break and do not unbreak. The usual answer is entropy: there are far more disordered arrangements than ordered ones, and the early universe began in an unusually ordered state.
Connects to
- Time
- Time and motion
- reaches reality?
- Why did it all start ordered?
- Does time flow?
- Why do we remember only the past?
- Is time a line or a circle?
- What was there before?
- Deep time