That's entropy and the arrow of time.

这就是熵和时间之箭。

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Carroll: The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever.

卡罗尔：时间之箭不会永远前进。

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Because we depend on the arrow of time just for our existence.

因为我们依赖时间之箭正是为了我们的存在。

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p2 p1 is greater than p2. Then I want to reverse direction of time. I want the arrow of time to go so that the gas goes from p2 to p1.

一直推，一直推，p1大于,接下来我想让时间倒流,让气体从p2到p1。p2比p1小。

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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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