H. D. Zeh

Universität Heidelberg
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Received: 13 March 2006 / Accepted: 4 April 2006 / Published: 5 April 2006

Abstract: In a series of papers [1,2,3], Lawrence Schulman presented examples which demonstrate the compatibility of opposite arrows of time in various situations. In a previous letter to this journal [4] I questioned some of them for not being realistic in spite of being logically correct. Schulman replied [5] to these objections in a letter directly succeeding my one. I am here trying to clarify some aspects of the dispute, thereby further explaining and supporting my previous conclusions.

Keywords: time arrow; final conditions; solvable models; causality; retardation; quantum measurements; gravitational entropy; cosmology.