The Arrow of Time: What Thermodynamics Doesn’t Tell You

Many people think the arrow of time can be explained by the increase of entropy; but that’s inadequate. We’ll explore why.

Tim Lou, PhD
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4 min readSep 5, 2020

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The irreversibility of time is ubiquitous, but it’s not so obvious why that has to be the case (Photo by Aron Visuals)

“An inch of time is an inch of gold”: The transience of time has been known since time immemorial. Unlike trekking across an open plain or diving into the ocean’s…

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Tim Lou, PhD
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Data Scientist @ TTD | ex Physics Researcher @ Berkeley/LBNL | PhD @ Princeton | Podcast host @ quirkcast.org