Re: ENTROPY and the Direction of Time from the BIG BANG

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:21

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On Jan 18, 2:58 pm, blackboab <blackb...@gmail.com> wrote in
sci.physics:
> The second law of thermodynics says that the direction of time is
> dictated by the increase of entropy,.

Does it? Why don't you read Jos Uffink's paper:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
Jos Uffink: "This summary leads to the question whether it is fruitful
to see irreversibility or time-asymmetry as the essence of the second
law. Is it not more straightforward, in view of the unargued
statements of Kelvin, the bold claims of Clausius and the strained
attempts of Planck, to give up this idea? I believe that Ehrenfest-
Afanassjewa was right in her verdict that the discussion about the
arrow of time as expressed in the second law of the thermodynamics is
actually a RED HERRING."

Jos Uffink:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/igg/jos/

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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Subject: Re: ENTROPY and the Direction of Time from the BIG BANG
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