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Is Time a Moment? - The Relation of Time with Entropy

  Although we experience it every day, we have not been able to explain exactly what the concept called time really is. The phenomenon of time, which has been emphasized throughout the history of humanity, from philosophy to physics, from art to daily life, still preserves its mystery. The biggest reason we perceive time is that we perceive change. So what is it that creates change? In our previous article, while we were talking about the laws of thermodynamics, we explained the concept of entropy belonging to the second law of thermodynamics. We can say that entropy is the change that constantly disrupts the forward disorder at every moment. Time is the river flowing forward in this disorder created by entropy. The notion of the moment is also important here. According to some scientists and philosophers, time does not exist as a past–present–future. These three-time structures are independent of each other. What is in the past cannot be in the present and in the future, what is ...