We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Most physicists doubt that time exists. On this page 40 years ago, we published scientific ‘proof’ of time being illusory. We pointed out that none of the equations of physics, from Newton’s laws to ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

Time series analysis forms an essential part of modern data science by examining sequential data to unravel the underlying dynamics of complex systems. In particular, entropy-based measures quantify ...

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