The Nature of the Physical World¶
Eddington, A. S. (1928). The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Irreversibility
- Eddington's coinage of the term
This sourceCoins the phrase "arrow of time" to describe the asymmetry of time imposed by the Second Law of thermodynamics: the future is distinguished from the past by the direction of entropy increase. Establishes the connection between thermodynamic irreversibility and temporal asymmetry as a fundamental feature of physics.
- Eddington's coinage of the term
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Eddington's concept of the "arrow of time"
This sourceCoins the phrase "arrow of time" to describe the asymmetry of time imposed by the Second Law of thermodynamics: the future is distinguished from the past by the direction of entropy increase. Establishes the connection between thermodynamic irreversibility and temporal asymmetry as a fundamental feature of physics.
- Eddington's concept of the "arrow of time"
- Time
- Time is not merely an observer's measurement device; it is a constitutive feature of how systems evolve, how entropy increases, and how causation propagates, as Eddington (1928) crystallized in coining the phrase "arrow of time" to describe the irreversible asymmetry observed in macroscopic processes.
This sourceCoins the phrase "arrow of time" to describe the asymmetry of time imposed by the Second Law of thermodynamics: the future is distinguished from the past by the direction of entropy increase. Establishes the connection between thermodynamic irreversibility and temporal asymmetry as a fundamental feature of physics.
- Time is not merely an observer's measurement device; it is a constitutive feature of how systems evolve, how entropy increases, and how causation propagates, as Eddington (1928) crystallized in coining the phrase "arrow of time" to describe the irreversible asymmetry observed in macroscopic processes.
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