The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time

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Natural selection for least action (2008, background): “Thus, the irreversibility is exclusively based on reasons of probability (Ritz & Einstein 1909; Zeh 2007).”
Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology (2006, background): “The fundamental physical laws by themselves are time symmetric, and so unable to explain this feature [28, 77, 242, 223].”
Relating the thermodynamic arrow of time to the causal arrow (2007, background): “• Entropy formulation: coarse-grained entropy does not decrease in time for a closed system that starts to evolve from a certain non-equilibrium state [4, 5, 6, 7].”
Quantum Time (2015, background): “In a sense, the “relativity” philosophy is extended also to quantum mechanics: states and measurements are relative to the observer [43,44], just as time and space are relative.”