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Originally Posted by randolph
Perhaps you guys can explain what this means.  |
Explain what exactly? Or a short roundup of the whole article?
The causality in the memory example is not reversible either, not like the Newtonian mechanics and relation to causality.
The thermodynamics describes Energy.
The example with the two closed containers filled with gases which are each in thermal and chemical equilibrium and don't allowing any energy to escape or enter. The answer is later written on that page you have this from. You can't compare the two single entropy's in equilibrium to one combined entropy. You have to compare a single entropy with two sub systems in equilibrium to the combined equilibrium. If that is done, there isn't a conflict anymore.
This article describes also the paradox way of time as closed loop, where you can travel forward until you reach the past. This way wouldn't hurt thermodynamics because time always goes in one direction, but there would be problems with causality, like you kill your own grandfather. Then you had killed a necessary cause of your own existence and wouldn't be able to kill him!
