5 papers
Is There More to T?
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
We present some novel results indicating that time's description in present-day physics is deficient. We use Hawking's information-erasure hypothesis to counter his own claim that…
Non-Sequential Behavior of the Wave Function
Shahar Dolev, Avshalom C. Elitzur
An experiment is presented in which the alleged progression of a photon's wave function is ``measured'' by a row of superposed atoms. The photon's wave function affects only one ou…
Does Indeterminism Give Rise to an Intrinsic Time Arrow?
Shahar Dolev, Avshalom C. Elitzur, Meir Hemmo
In any physical theory that admits true indeterminism, the thermodynamic arrow of time can arise regardless of the system's initial conditions. Hence on such theories time's arrow…
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…