Sean Carroll
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Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards? (Big Picture Ep. 1/5)

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September 29, 2016

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Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! His book can be found here

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AMAZING Interactive Entropy explainer by Aatish Bhatia

This video is about why entropy gives rise to the arrow of time, and also how the initial low-entropy condition of the universe is responsible for the fact that we experience time right now, and how ultimately it will lead to the high-entropy heat death of the universe.

REFERENCES & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

David Wallace on entropy of gravitating systems:

Sean Carroll: The Big Picture

(more great articles about entropy, etc on his blog )

Julian Barbour et al on entropic time simulation

Music by Nathaniel Schroeder,

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