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From Randomness and Entropy to the Arrow of Time

From Randomness and Entropy to the Arrow of Time
  • Lena Zuchowski
  • Published online:
    16 February 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024
  • The Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It also evaluates the link between entropy and visible disorder, and the related claim of an alignment of the Arrow of Time with a development from order to visible disorder. The Element identifies three different entropy-groundings for the Arrow of Time: (i) the Empirical Arrow of Time, (ii) the Universal Statistical Arrow of Time, and (iii) the Local Statistical Arrow of Time. The Element will also demonstrate that it is unlikely that high entropy states will always coincide with visible disorder. Therefore, it will dispute that there is a strong link between the Arrow of Time and visible disorder.

  • 7 - Thermodynamics

  • Jason Rosenhouse, James Madison University, Virginia
  • Book:
    The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism
    Published online:
    28 April 2022
    Print publication:
    12 May 2022, pp 221-266

  • Summary

    Anti-evolutionists sometimes use principles of thermodynamics in making their case. Though thermodynamics is normally considered a branch of physics, it has a strongly mathematical character that justifies its inclusion in this book. We discuss the basics of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and then explain why the anti-evolutionist version is such a caricature.