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Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction…
Nonlocal Effects of Partial Measurements and Quantum Erasure
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
Partial measurement turns the initial superposition not into a definite outcome but into a greater probability for it. The probability can approach 100%, yet the measurement can un…
Black Hole Evaporation Entails an Objective Passage of Time
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
Time's apparent passage has long been debated by philosophers, with no decisive argument for or against its objective existence. In this paper we show that introducing the issue of…
Biology and Thermodynamics: Seemingly-Opposite Phenomena in Search of a Unified Paradigm
Shahar Dolev, Avshalom C. Elitzur
It is probably not a coincidence that two of the pioneers of thermodynamics, Helmholtz and Mayer, were physicians. Thermodynamics studies the transformations of energy, and such tr…
Indeterminism and Time Symmetry are Incompatible: Reply to Rebilas
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
Rebilas argues that time-reversal can occur even in an indeterministic system. This hypothesis is untestable, hence lying beyond physics.