Hi Richard,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote:

> Classical thermodynamics and heat transfer calculates the approach to
> equilibrium exactly AFAIK. Increasing the amount/range of statistics which
> I expect entanglement should do should then increase the rate of approach
> to equilibrium which apparently it does not,
>

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Why would you expect that?
And wouldn't that contradict thermodynamics then, and be falsified by
classical results?

Thanks!
Telmo.


> otherwise there would be empirical data to support the entanglement story,
> which apparently there is not. So I suggest that entanglement is just an
> alternative or more detailed explanation of classical thermodynamics.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source/
>>
>> I like the idea, but am two naive in theoretical physics to have an
>> informed opinion. Would more knowledgable people care to comment?
>>
>> At first sight, this seems very much inline with Bruno's ideas.
>>
>> Best,
>> Telmo.
>>
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