Remarks on the Compatibility of Opposite Arrows of Time

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Remarks on the Compatibility of Opposite Arrows of Time

H. D. Zeh

Universität Heidelberg Gaiberger Str. 38, D69151 Waldhilsbach, Germany

Received: 15 August 2005 / Accepted: 20 September 2005 / Published: 23 September 2005

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Entanglement and Quantum Information Theory)

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Abstract: I argue that opposite arrows of time, while being logically possible, cannot realistically be assumed to exist during one and the same epoch of our universe.

Keywords: time arrow; final conditions; solvable models; causality; retardation; cosmology; big crunch; black holes; quantum measurements; Wheeler-DeWitt equation

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