I'm having difficulty understanding the temporal symmetry of entropy described in Fabric of the Cosmos. The increase into the future is easy enough to accept, but in the same equation we see it decrease from the past to the present. Am I to accept that there is an equal chance of some magical...
In 1999, Zeilinger and his colleagues fired beams of "carbon-60" or "carbon-70" molecules (so named because each molecule contains 60 or 70 carbon atoms) at a device called a diffraction grating. The individual molecules spread out in wavelike patterns, creating "interference patterns" visible...