lupin on Nostr: Time is not a force but a measure, like the other three dimensions. It is special ...
Time is not a force but a measure, like the other three dimensions. It is special insofar as it only has one direction, what Arthur Eddington famously called „the arrow of time“. As
liminal 🦠 (npub1m3x…a5sf) wrotefurther below, from the perspective of thermodynamics, this directedness comes from entropy. It‘s a tricky subject, though!
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