On the Baryonic Asymmetry: “At the moment of the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced.”
On the ‘Arrow of time’ Problem: “the laws of physics remain consistent irrespective of the arrow of time.”
But wavefunction collapse randomly breaks the symmetry of superposed states. And time irreversibly moves forward. The resolution to these and other “problems” requires careful analysis of the assumptions that logically lead to the conclusion of fundamental determinism and reversibility .
In my new article Time and Causality—A Thermocontextual Perspective, published in a special volume Time, Causality, and Entropy, I propose a new conceptual framework in which the physical state is defined with respect to surroundings at a positive ambient temperature. Absolute zero does not exist and even the universe has an ambient background energy for the exchange of heat and photons. This extends physics to include exergy (work potential) and physical entropy as thermocontextual properties of the physical state, and it recognizes randomness and irreversibility as truly fundamental.
The Reality of Time and Change — Reimagining Physics Part 1 (with links to the article and to other parts of the Reimagining Physics series) is at:
