Roberts, B. (2022). Reversing the Arrow of Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122139 #OpenAccess #Book #Books #Physics #Astronomy #PhilosophyOfScience #History #Philosophy #Science
@bibliolater I skimmed through the book. It seems odd to me that he never seems to seriously consider what I take to be the mainstream interpretation. We had a low-entropy big bang, for reasons we don't know. That fact defines an arrow of time.
Instead he seems to consider various straw men, such as the claim that thermodynamics all by itself defines an arrow of time (obviously wrong), or that cosmological expansion is somehow coupled to the thermodynamic arrow (why?).
@ben_crowell_fullerton I cannot speak to intention and motivation.
