Selected reading: Time reversal, typicality and low-entropy boundary conditions.
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Why does time have an arrow?
Trace the low-entropy explanation and identify the further question it leaves open.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
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Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
de Groot · Mazur. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems
Nicolis · Prigogine. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The End of Certainty
Ilya Prigogine. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics
E. T. Jaynes. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Entropy and Information Theory
Robert Gray. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.