On Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 7:14:39 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>I don't follow your claim. AG* *If you want to understand the nature of time and why it only moves in one direction, the science of thermodynamics can explain half of that puzzle, but only half. If tomorrow is different from today, which by definition it must be, and there are astronomically more ways to be disordered than ordered, then the overwhelming probability will be that tomorrow will be more disordered and have a correspondingly higher entropy than today. BUT **yesterday was also different from today by definition, and it's still true that there are far more ways to be disordered than ordered, so yesterday should also be more disordered and have a correspondingly higher entropy than today. And that is very clearly untrue! * You don't seem to like entropy increasing forward and backward in time. Why not? AG *The only way out of this predicament is to insert a new axiom, the universe started out in a very low entropy state. And because it's an axiom it of course has no proof.* One of my axioms is that Something cannot transform into Nothing, and Nothing cannot transform into Something. Do you find this axiom completely ridiculous or just somehow inconvenient in that it contradicts GR wrt energy conservation? But I take it you accept one of the Principles of Logic which I recently posted, and you should take note that it is also unprovable. AG * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 11n -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1690c5f9-78a7-4b8c-aa3d-afe0ceaf51b9n%40googlegroups.com.
