This serves as a crude model of entropy, Smolyaninov says, representing the thermodynamic arrow of time.

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He concedes that his "arrow of time" view is a minority one.

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The "arrow of time" is based on the notion that it is possible to use data from modern languages to trace their origins back 10, 000 years or even further.

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But the latest Science paper "and our own observations suggest that it is possible to detect an arrow of time" underlying proto-human languages spoken more than 8, 000 years ago, said Murray Gell-Mann of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, who read the Science paper and supports it.

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Hamilton replaced seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher at the "Silver Arrow" team after the German legend retired for the second time at the end of last season.

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The only thing that came to my mind was the old joke that time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.

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If time truly has an arrow, though, some of these shifts will occur at a different rate when going in one direction rather than the other.

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When the time is right, Bronn lights an arrow and shoots it toward the ship.

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Green Arrow shoots a projectile, Batman summons autonomous drones, the Flash slows time, allowing him to chain together faster combos.

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The seven-time world champion, who finished 10th in Bahrain, will be behind the wheel of the 2011 Silver Arrow MGP W02 on Sunday.

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