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In article <538@massey.ac.nz> ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:
>By negative entropy, here, I meant the situation where every event in the
>universe, started reversing.  This includes events in the sub-atomic scale
>as well as the macro-cosmic scale.  Perhaps, as you say, the word `entropy'
>is a misfit here; but the idea was to convey the question that if time
>started reversing, would the human mind be capable of finding that out.

Entropy is definitely the wrong word to use here if that's the idea you're
trying to convey.  The classical/thermodynamic definition of the word entropy 
is a measure of the amount of energy no longer capable of conversion into work.
The thermodynamics teaches us that the total energy of the universe is
constant and the total entropy is continually increasing.  By using the word
entropy in your article about the matters of human perception in the event
of time-flow reversal, the basis of your proposition is unnecessarily
contaminated with the unsound thermodynamic background.

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