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Review

Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law?

by
Arieh Ben-Naim
Department of Physical Chemistry, Edmond J. Safra Campus, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Entropy 2023, 25(9), 1297; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091297
Submission received: 7 August 2023 / Revised: 30 August 2023 / Accepted: 3 September 2023 / Published: 5 September 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Time)
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Abstract

In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related to time’s arrow. It is shown that while time’s decrease can never occur, irreversible processes can be reversed, although with extremely low probability. Similarly, it is argued that both entropy and the Second Law are timeless, i.e., have nothing to do with either time or with time’s arrow.
Keywords: entropy; time; Second Law; thermodynamics; irreversible processes entropy; time; Second Law; thermodynamics; irreversible processes

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Ben-Naim, A. Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? Entropy 2023, 25, 1297. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091297

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Ben-Naim A. Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? Entropy. 2023; 25(9):1297. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091297

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Ben-Naim, Arieh. 2023. "Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law?" Entropy 25, no. 9: 1297. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091297

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Ben-Naim, A. (2023). Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law? Entropy, 25(9), 1297. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091297

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