
Lee Smolin - Think About Nature
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The Paradox of Maxwell's Equations
The laws that govern the propagation of light are reversible in time. This is more evident when we look at telescopes and see stars as they were in the past. We never see starlight coming to us from stars in the future. So this then becomes a challenge. Can we make hypotheses about how the fundamental laws could really be asymmetric in time?
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