Why Does Time Go Forward?
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There's nothing especially mysterious about a glass of water. Ten thousand trillion or so water molecules, vibrating like crazy, dancing around on the smallest of scales, but contained by the walls of the glass, a little bit of gravity, and some hydrogen bonding. It fits our expectations about the universe very nicely. And there's nothing surprising about watching a drop of ink swirl and spread through the liquid, dissipating from a cloud of color to an even hue. It's just the way we expect things to go. If we dripped that drop a hundred, a thousand, or a million times, we'd not only expect to see the same thing happen. The same thing would happen. Probably. Thing is, there's nothing about the laws of physics that govern how all t...
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There's nothing especially mysterious about a glass of water. Ten thousand trillion or so water molecules, vibrating like crazy, dancing around on the smallest of scales, but contained by the walls of the glass, a little bit of gravity, and some hydrogen bonding. It fits our expectations about the universe very nicely. And there's nothing surprising about watching a drop of ink swirl and spread through the liquid, dissipating from a cloud of color to an even hue. It's just the way we expect things to go. If we dripped that drop a hundred, a thousand, or a million times, we'd not only expect to see the same thing happen. The same thing would happen. Probably. Thing is, there's nothing about the laws of physics that govern how all t...
