30 - David Albert: Foundations of Physics, Time’s Arrow, & Moral Expressivism
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The Problem With Time Reversal Asymmetry
Time reversal asymmetry has been inherent to all of our physics since Newton. If contemporary theoretical physics are trying to somehow bake this asymmetry in, like in string theory or quantum theory, that will come up with that. But could you imagine laws that we could impose that constrain the initial conditions of the universe? The question is relatively simple. And which if we added it to the dynamical laws, would at least arguably explain this temporal and the goodness of ordinary physical processes.
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