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I summarize, in this informal interview, the main approaches to the ‘Past Hypothesis’, the postulation of a low-entropy initial state of the universe. I’ve chosen this as an open problem in the philosophical foundations of physics. I hope that this brief overview helps readers in gaining perspective and in appreciating the diverse range of approaches in this fascinating unresolved debate
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
In recent years there have been significant developments in cosmological models that assume zero or ...
The concept of cosmic entropy, and the purported need to explain the initial conditions of Friedmann...
I summarize, in this informal interview, the main approaches to the ‘Past Hypothesis’, the postulati...
I summarize the main approaches to the ‘Past Hypothesis’ - the postulation of a low-entropy initial ...
I discuss the Boltzmann-Penrose question of why the initial conditions for cosmology have low entrop...
It is argued that the initial state of the universe is neither a high-entropy equilibrium state nor ...
According to statistical mechanics, microstates of an isolated physical system (say, a gas in a box)...
It has become something of a dogma in the philosophy of science that modern cosmology has completed ...
Philosophers of physics have long debated whether the Past State of low entropy of our universe call...
Philosophers of physics have long debated whether the Past State of low entropy of our universe call...
In this paper I examine Albert’s (2000) claim that the low entropy state of the early universe is su...
International audienceWhere was the past low-entropy of the early universe located? Contrary to some...
I discuss the statistical mechanics of gravitating systems and in particular its cosmological implic...
Proposals for describing the initial state of the universe hardly ever address a certain fundamental...
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
In recent years there have been significant developments in cosmological models that assume zero or ...
The concept of cosmic entropy, and the purported need to explain the initial conditions of Friedmann...
I summarize, in this informal interview, the main approaches to the ‘Past Hypothesis’, the postulati...
I summarize the main approaches to the ‘Past Hypothesis’ - the postulation of a low-entropy initial ...
I discuss the Boltzmann-Penrose question of why the initial conditions for cosmology have low entrop...
It is argued that the initial state of the universe is neither a high-entropy equilibrium state nor ...
According to statistical mechanics, microstates of an isolated physical system (say, a gas in a box)...
It has become something of a dogma in the philosophy of science that modern cosmology has completed ...
Philosophers of physics have long debated whether the Past State of low entropy of our universe call...
Philosophers of physics have long debated whether the Past State of low entropy of our universe call...
In this paper I examine Albert’s (2000) claim that the low entropy state of the early universe is su...
International audienceWhere was the past low-entropy of the early universe located? Contrary to some...
I discuss the statistical mechanics of gravitating systems and in particular its cosmological implic...
Proposals for describing the initial state of the universe hardly ever address a certain fundamental...
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
In recent years there have been significant developments in cosmological models that assume zero or ...
The concept of cosmic entropy, and the purported need to explain the initial conditions of Friedmann...
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