Sometimes, halfway through reading a paper, I wonder if the editors have been Sokaled (if this is not a word, it really should be), fooled by a vaguely scientific-sounding parody. This is one of those occasions. Lorenzo Maccone, an itinerant physicist currently residing at MIT, has published a paper that claims to solve one of the trickier problems facing physics: why does time have a direction? B
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