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Naively there is a conflict between CPT symmetry being at heart of fundamental physics models like QFT, and 2nd law of thermodynamics: saying that entropy grows toward future.
Is there really a conflict here - so is physics symmetric or not? How to understand it?
Personally I disagree with that there is conflict: to "prove" entropy growth e.g. in Boltzmann H-thoerem, we need to make this "stosszahlansatz" assumption, which corresponds to kind of mean-field approximation, allowing to prove entropy growth.
Without this approximation/smoothing, we have e.g. positions of particles with time/CPT symmetric behavior: if "proving" entropy growth, we could perform symmetry first and apply this proof - getting contradiction.
So this tendency for entropy growth seems in fact time symmetric: having low entropy situation (e.g. all particles are in left hand side of a containment), the entropy should grow if evolving toward both future and past.
Low entropy situation in the history of our Universe was our Big Bang - can BB be seen as the reason of entropy growth we are observing?
Yesterday PBS " The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It":
Is there really a conflict here - so is physics symmetric or not? How to understand it?
Personally I disagree with that there is conflict: to "prove" entropy growth e.g. in Boltzmann H-thoerem, we need to make this "stosszahlansatz" assumption, which corresponds to kind of mean-field approximation, allowing to prove entropy growth.
Without this approximation/smoothing, we have e.g. positions of particles with time/CPT symmetric behavior: if "proving" entropy growth, we could perform symmetry first and apply this proof - getting contradiction.
So this tendency for entropy growth seems in fact time symmetric: having low entropy situation (e.g. all particles are in left hand side of a containment), the entropy should grow if evolving toward both future and past.
Low entropy situation in the history of our Universe was our Big Bang - can BB be seen as the reason of entropy growth we are observing?
Yesterday PBS " The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It":