Re: "The Arrow of Time"

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:29:45 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
>> Retne The concept of entropy defines an arrow of time. The future is
>> the direction in which entropy increases. But this is only one of the 5
>> ways in which we can make a distinction between past and future. Here
>> is the 5 ways 1 increase in entropy 2 the expansion of the universe
>> 3 The kaon in its actions between subatomic particles which are 'time
>> reversible" (tricky stuff this kaon) 4 the electromagnetic which has
>> its radiation only traveling towards the future. Sorry Retne there is
>> number five,but I can't remember it I think it comes out of the
>> Anthropic Principle. TreBert
>>
>
> You for got brain decay!

ahahaha... Hurray for geriatric physics! ahahahaha... The old farts
rule, in more ways than one.

On the question of the arrow of time, let me say that there is no such
thing as an arrow of time. Time is not a variable, GODAMNIT! Here's
what Dr. Joe Rosen, the retired former physics chair of the University
of Central Arkansas, had to say about the arrow of time:

"What has been has indeed objectively been and is no more. What
will be, objectively is not and has not been (and, in fact, is not
even fully determined, according to quantum indeterminacy). All
physical systems ride the universal wave of becoming. Any
awareness (ours or that of other intelligences) of past and future
reflects the objective wave of becoming. There is no problem of
"the arrow of time." There simply is no arrow of time, as if time
could go one "way" rather than another. That metaphor is an
unfortunate result of spatializing time. The picture of time as a
line along which one might travel in one direction or the other is
a conceptual disaster. Time is becoming. Becoming is change. The
undoing of a change is also a change. There is no "unbecoming."

From "Time, c, and nonlocality: A glimpse beneath the surface?"
Physics Essays, vol. 7, pp. 335-340, 1994

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
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