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The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time. It was developed in 1927 by the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington , and is an unsolved general physics question .
Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology , with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
"Time's Arrow" (short story), a 1950 short story by Arthur C. Clarke; Time's Arrow, a 1991 novel by Martin Amis "Time's Arrow" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1992 two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Time's Arrow, a 2011 release by the American artist Prurient "Time's Arrow", a 2012 orchestral work by English composer ...
"Time's Arrow, Part I" and "Time's Arrow, Part II" was released on LaserDisc in the United Kingdom in November 1996. [16] The PAL format optical disc had a runtime of 88 minutes using both sides of the disc, to include both Parts (CLV). [16] The 12-inch optical disc retailed for £19.99 when it came out. [16]
The music review website Pitchfork gave Time's Arrow a rating of 6.9 and described it as "capturing the passage of time in effervescent synths and impressionistic lyrics." [6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the album a score of 77 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [7]
"Time's Arrow" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1950 in the first issue of the magazine Science Fantasy. The story revolves about the unintended consequences of using time travel to study dinosaurs. The story was included in the 2005 anthology The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century.
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell.
The idea that we can remember the past and not the future is called the "psychological arrow of time" and it has deep connections with Maxwell's demon and the physics of information; memory is linked to the second law of thermodynamics if one views it as correlation between brain cells (or computer bits) and the outer world: Since such ...