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I argue that opposite arrows of time, while being logically possible, cannot realistically be assumed to exist during one and the same epoch of our universe.
This comment was written in reply to Lawrence Schulman’s oral conference contribution at Bielefeld, which dealt with models representing opposite arrows of time. Together with the two subsequent Letters, it was first published in the online journal Entropy 7, 199 (2005); 7, 208 (2005); and 8, 44 (2006).
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Zeh, H.D. (2014). Remarks on the Compatibility of Opposite Arrows of Time. In: Albeverio, S., Blanchard, P. (eds) Direction of Time. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02798-2_21
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