Why is there a difference between past and future?

[ndung200790]

Please teach me this:
We know that there is a approximate symmetry of time T in physics(together with CP symmetry).Then why there is an asymmetry between past and future(we can not reverse the present world to past world)?
Thank you very much in advance.

 

[mfb]

arrow of time

Two important concepts:
- space is expanding: "The past is a state with a 'smaller' universe"
- entropy is increasing: "The past is a state with less entropy"

In other words: If there is some reason to have a small, expanding low-entropy state, you'll get a universe with a well-defined arrow of time like the universe we are in.
If you begin with a high-entropy state, you won't get life as we know it.

 

[Demystifier]

The origin of asymmetry can be traced back to the initial conditions. Entropy increases with time, which means that initial entropy was very low. The fact that entropy increases with time is not really a physical law (even though it is sometimes referred to as the second "law" of thermodynamics), but merely a property of a particular solution which happens to describe the state of our universe.

 

[ndung200790]

OK,I see,thank you very much.