{"id":147590,"date":"2022-10-05T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:24:15","slug":"why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards","title":{"rendered":"Why does time go forwards, not backwards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRPkNMsYnLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps the strangest thing about the arrow of time: \u201cIt only lasts for a little while,\u201d says Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very hard to picture what might happen if the arrow of time eventually vanishes. \u201cWhen we think we produce heat in our neurons,\u201d says Rovelli. \u201cThinking is a process in which the neuron needs entropy to work. Our sense of time passing is just what entropy does to our brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The arrow of time that arises from entropy brings us a long way closer to understanding why time only goes forward. But there may be more arrows of time than this one \u2013 in fact there is arguably an entire volley of arrows of time pointing from the past to the future. To understand these, we have to step from physics into philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps the strangest thing about the arrow of time: \u201cIt only lasts for a little while,\u201d says Carroll. It\u2019s very hard to picture what might happen if the arrow of time eventually vanishes. \u201cWhen we think we produce heat in our neurons,\u201d says Rovelli. \u201cThinking is a process in which the neuron needs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}