I could be sued for reproducting this picture. I know that. I am usually smarter than that. BUT I dont intend to redistribute it for money blah blah blah.... I just thought it was an amazing way to illustrate our discussion.
It’s not exactly cupid’s arrow, but time DOES indeed have a direction. The past lies behind us: fixed and unchangeable, while the future lies ahead and is not necessarily fixed. When we gaze into the universe we absorb this principal since we can only see as far into the universe as light can travel.
It is in essence- looking back in time.
A bit of physics for you to show how this is present in the different ideological branches:
The main areas of physics suggesting that time is an arrow include: the Second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy must increase over time; the cosmological arrow of time, which points away from the Big Bang, and the radiative arrow of time, caused by light only traveling forwards in time. In particle physics, there is also the weak arrow of time.
The thought that time is a topological form is indeed strange, but very prevalent in Big Bang cosmology…
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