“Do not try and solve the paradox; that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no paradox.”*
Why is there a difference between past and future?
The laws of Newton are symmetrical in time while the entropy of a closed system always increases – creating an arrow of time. How can it be that the laws describing particles are the same whether we go forward or backwards in time, while a law describing the same system macroscopically is very different in terms of past and future?
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