Time’s arrow, irreversibility, and the entropic cost of any event happening at all. The constant intake and release as the same current.

Thread: The One-Way World

You Are a Verb the Universe Is Conjugating

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A waterfall has a shape. Go back to the same one after a year and you will recognize it — the same white curl where the water folds over the lip, the same standing wave below, the same plume of mist hung in the same place in the air. You could photograph it, name it, […]

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The Universe Runs on Forgetting

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Pour milk into coffee. The white blooms, curls, slackens, drowns into an even brown. Now run the film backward. The brown unmixes. The milk gathers itself and leaps into the jug. Everyone laughs. No one can say which law was broken. None was. Every single collision in that cup is reversible — run any one […]

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