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Revision 96 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
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“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 96 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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The laws of physics are nearly time-symmetric, and the second law explains the direction of time only given a low-entropy past. Why the early universe was so special, the past hypothesis, is a question for cosmology that physics has not answered.

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