Today I was walking the Boltzmanngasse and I remembered that there is nothing intrinsic in the flow of time, no difference between past & future—we see one just because our vision of the world is blurred
ΔS ≥ 0
. . . Boltzmann hanged himself during an attack of depression
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He was in vacation with his wife and daughter in Duino, near Trieste—where a few years later Rilke wrote his masterpiece—but upset and nervous because he was anxious to return to Vienna
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As someone obsessed with the concept of entropy for the past year, the idea that the apparent "arrow of time" is simply a probabilistic phenomenon seems very disingenuous for the universe to have built itself upon.
And yet..
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“The second law [..of thermodynamics..] is the most metaphysical law of physics since it points out without interposing symbols, without artificial devices or measurements, the direction in which the world is going.”
— Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1907)
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Yes, while on vacation with his wife and daughter in Duino, near Trieste, where a few years later Rilke wrote his masterpiece
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and then you turn around a corner and a staircase tells you
"Wenn die Blätter auf den Stufen liegen
herbstlich atmet aus den alten Stiegen
was vor Zeiten über sie gegangen."
maybe ΔS = 0 ??? :)
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