(1/3) The arrow of time is the distinction between past and future. Causes precede effects; we grow older; we remember the past. #aot
(2/3) Deep physical laws are reversible. Time's direction only arises macroscopically, because entropy/disorder is increasing. #aot
(3/3) Entropy is increasing because it started small near the Big Bang (and is still pretty low). Nobody knows why that's the case. #aot
Other 3-tweet Physics theory explain nations, In Quantum Field Theory, the Higgs Boson, and M-Theory can be found at Sean's original blogpost on the subject at Cosmic Variance: here.
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So this ends up to ad hoc?
I see he has three talks about the matter.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2944/live_ted_conversation_join_te_1.html?awesm=on.ted.com_SeanCarrollQA&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&utm_medium=on.ted.com-static&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com
You should have given the link. Those tweets were absurd alone :)
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