irreversibility
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It also reveals something striking: observation introduces irreversibility, which is what gives time its forward direction.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025
This is distinct from how the term is often used, namely with the idea that it involves on a global scale "irreversibility, which has to do with the impossibility of returning to its previous state."
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024
Time irreversibility is related to a measure of disorder that, in physics, is called entropy.
From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2020
I also recognize, in its rawness, a teenager who considered, maybe for the first time, the irreversibility of regrets and the ways unexpected people can leave lasting marks on others.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2019
Because I have often seen the flame precede the boiling of the water, and in this the irreversibility of the two perceptions has guaranteed to me the succession of the events perceived?
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
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