http://www.nyas.org/ebrief/miniEB.asp?eBriefID=687
"In particular, the Second Law of Thermodynamics
dictates that entropy in a physical system will
increase as time passes. This has ramifications on
cosmological scales in the inflationary model of our
universe, which posits that there was an initial
singularity and that since the Big Bang, the universe
has been expanding."
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."
Whether the law of entropy increase is a RED HERRING
or not would be a problem in a different world. In
Einstein zombie world the universal solution is: Who
cares. Some can make money and career by applying this
law. Bravo! Cleverer scientists can show it is a RED
HERRING. Bravo again! Cleverer scientists will also be
given some money.
Pentcho Valev
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