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AMA | April 2022

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

CHAPTER

Is Time Reversible?

Time is just a label, and there is no directionality to it. To me, reverse time is non what does that even mean? The direction of time is implicitly defined by the preceding events followed by succeeding events. If we agree that time can only flow in one direction, from preceding to succeeding, then why do we need a low entropy state of the big bang?, he asks.

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