Monday, August 28, 2006

The distinction between past and future is just a consequence of the peculiar part of the universe we inhabit, not a necessary physical law:

The very beginning of time found our universe in an extremely unnatural and highly organized low-entropy state. It is the process by which it is inevitably relaxing into a more naturally disordered and messy configuration that imprints the unmistakable difference between past and future that we perceive.

This idea is fascinating; it remind me of some of what Roger Penrose says in The Emperor's New Mind. But I'm not sure I buy it.

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