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AMA | September 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Time's Arrow Isn't Something That Flows

Time isn't something that flows. That's not a fundamental feature of time. Time just a label on where you are in the universe. The difference between the past and the future comes exclusively because enthropy is increasing. And that's what gives time its direction, where time's arrow comes from. If you believe that is the only place the time's arrow come from, as i do, then any impression we have that time is flowing has to come from there. There's nowhere else for it to come to from.

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