Accession Number:

AD0612232

Title:

THE DIRECTION OF TIME AND THE EQUIVALENCE OF 'EXPANDING' AND 'CONTRACTING' WORLDMODELS,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CORNELL UNIV ITHACA N Y

Personal Author(s):

• SCHUMACHER,D. L.

Report Date:

1963-11-14

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

It is assumed initially that only the increase on entropy defines locally the sense of advance of time. The assumption, together with the feature of global coherence of statistical processes, which is provided by the cosmic lineelement, imply that there is a unique way of associating the standards with the cosmis statistical processes. There is hence a connexion between the sense of divergence of geodesics of fundamental observers and the cosmis timesense. This is in keeping with the unmodified conservation laws of gravitation and the analogous adiabatic conservation law quite generally without dependence on the explicit form of the line element. These remarks correspond exactly to consequences of the elliptic model in the case of deSitter space, obtained by entirely separate geometrical considerations. A remark is made with regard to the irreversibility associated with quantum measurement. Author

Descriptors:

• *ASTRONOMY
• THERMODYNAMICS
• ENTROPY
• TIME
• MASS ENERGY RELATION
• STATISTICAL PROCESSES
• QUANTUM THEORY
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• GEODESICS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE