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Physics Has Never Removed Time's Direction

Physics has never suggested time lacks a direction: the CPT theorem combined with experimentally confirmed CP violation (parity violation won Nobel prizes) implies T-symmetry must also be violated, so even the best theory (quantum field theory) contains a directionality of time; entropy-based asymmetries presuppose a time order rather than establishing one.

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Speaker

Tim Maudlin

Evidence Quote

you're trying to explain why things typically happen in a certain time order and not in the reverse order and entropy considerations are often important for understanding that... but it that doesn't at all suggest that time doesn't exist

Source

318 - Physics PhilosophyMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:58:49 AM

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