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时间之箭与时空的本质

The arrow of time and the nature of spacetime

George F R Ellis

摘要:

本文扩展了前一篇关于时间流的论文[arXiv:1208.2611]的工作,考虑时间箭头的起源。它提出,一个“过去的条件”级联从宇宙到微观尺度,在许多微观结构中实现,并通过自上而下的因果关系在量子水平上设定时间箭头。这个物理学的时间箭头然后通过更高层次结构的潜在出现向上传播到地质学,天文学,工程学和生物学。观察这一切的合适的时空图景是一个突现的块宇宙(EBU),它认识到现在与过去和未来的不同。这种本质上的区别是时间之箭必须是这样的最终原因。

英文摘要:

This paper extends the work of a previous paper [arXiv:1208.2611] on the flow of time, to consider the origin of the arrow of time. It proposes that a `past condition' cascades down from cosmological to micro scales, being realized in many microstructures and setting the arrow of time at the quantum level by top-down causation. This physics arrow of time then propagates up, through underlying emergence of higher level structures, to geology, astronomy, engineering, and biology. The appropriate space-time picture to view all this is an emergent block universe (`EBU'), that recognizes the way the present is different from both the past and the future. This essential difference is the ultimate reason the arrow of time has to be the way it is.

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