The Arrow of Time
NaturePublished 17 March 1956Open access
Karl R. Popper
Citations114
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SNIP10.16
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Abstract
IT is widely believed that all irreversible mechanical processes involve an increase of entropy, and that 'classical' (that is, non-statistical) mechanics, of continuous media as well as of particles, can describe physical processes only in so far as they are reversible in time1. This means that a film taken of a classical process should be reversible, in the sense that, if put into a projector with the last picture first, it should again yield a possible classical process.