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It is more and more widely recognized that all the mutually consistent, locally observable aspects of physical irreversibility — entropy or probability increase, wave retardation, preponderance of ‘causality’ over ‘finality’, of statistical prediction over statistical retrodiction, of information-as-knowledge over information-as-organization, darkness of the sky at night, Hubble redshift — are not only tied together, but are also all tied with the cosmological phenomenon of world expansion.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1987). Irreversibility as a Cosmic Phenomenon. In: Time, The Physical Magnitude. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3811-3_11
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