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
González-Espinoza, Martínez-Mekler and Lacasa wondered whether the time irreversibility score their analysis assigned to each composer could accurately reflect the aesthetic properties of that composer’s music.
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
Sun Yat-sen did not devise any elaborate scheme of dialectical materialism or economic determinism to bolster his belief in the irreversibility of the flow to democracy.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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