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  • 5 - Arrows That Misfire

  • Bryan W. Roberts, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Reversing the Arrow of Time
    Published online:
    24 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 115-138
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  • Summary

    The Representation View provides a strategy for determining whether time itself has an arrow, but most purported arrows fail to establish this.

  • 1 - A Brief History of Time Reversal

  • Bryan W. Roberts, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Reversing the Arrow of Time
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    24 November 2022
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    08 December 2022, pp 1-20
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    The symmetries of time can be understood through the symmetries of motion, both in a sense that is familiar to philosophers andin the history of time reversal.

Reversing the Arrow of Time
  • Bryan W. Roberts
  • Published online:
    24 November 2022
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    08 December 2022
  • The arrow of time refers to the curious asymmetry that distinguishes the future from the past. Reversing the Arrow of Time argues that there is an intimate link between the symmetries of 'time itself' and time reversal symmetry in physical theories, which has wide-ranging implications for both physics and its philosophy. This link helps to clarify how we can learn about the symmetries of our world; how to understand the relationship between symmetries and what is real, and how to overcome pervasive illusions about the direction of time. Roberts explains the significance of time reversal in a way that intertwines physics and philosophy, to establish what the arrow of time means and how we can come to know it. This book is both mathematically and philosophically rigorous yet remains accessible to advanced undergraduates in physics and philosophy of physics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.