Location
Library 3152
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Presentation
Start Date
12-5-2025 8:25 PM
End Date
12-5-2025 9:05 PM
Description
Findings conceptually investigate the quantum mechanical nature of time and its relationship with the second law of thermodynamics. At the quantum level, the distinction between past and future dissolves, and the present moment, as commonly understood, ceases to exist. Time's directional flow—the "arrow of time"—arises not from the fundamental laws themselves, but from boundary conditions and observer-dependent coarse-graining.
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Raul Barrea
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The Crumbling of Time
Entropic Origins and Quantum Dissolution of Temporal Structure
Library 3152
Findings conceptually investigate the quantum mechanical nature of time and its relationship with the second law of thermodynamics. At the quantum level, the distinction between past and future dissolves, and the present moment, as commonly understood, ceases to exist. Time's directional flow—the "arrow of time"—arises not from the fundamental laws themselves, but from boundary conditions and observer-dependent coarse-graining.
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Raul Barrea