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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (249637)4/26/2014 12:25:13 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 542571
 
You may well be right, but I also always understood time runs back and forth the same.

I also understood that the physicists really can't get a handle on time.

I once read an entire book on time and did not understand one thing he said. I remember none of it.

But the point you make about the difference in micro and macro, and particle physics, would be the place I would expect to find some answers.

And they mention entanglement. That was the one that spooked Einstein.

I wish I was smarter and could have studied particle physics. Therein lie the answers to many mysteries; and the edge of knowledge.



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But to the bafflement of generations of physicists, the arrow of time does not seem to follow from the underlying laws of physics, which work the same going forward in time as in reverse.
Wrong - there are subtle differences on the particle level so for some things going forward in time doesn't happen in reverse if you go back in time - discovered in the 1980's.

There seems to be no connection with that microscopic event and entropy which is macroscopic or what we perceive as the "flow of time", but as more and more is learned about particle physics, who knows what they'll find.

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