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Science Corner: If I Could Turn Back Time

September 9, 2020 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Some of the pleasure of the film is experiencing the twists as they are revealed, but we learn earlier than I expected that the story centers around technology to invert the flow of time and/or entropy.

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Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: entropy, science, science corner, time travel

Science Reader Question: Time and Forgiveness

February 3, 2016 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Effects follow causes; we must live in the future with all the intended and unintended results of our choices. We call this sequence of unrepeatable moments time. In other words, time is that feature of the universe which makes forgiveness necessary.

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: entropy, forgiveness, redemption, science, science corner, science reader question, time

Science Corner: Dancing in the Sunshine

February 11, 2015 by Andy Walsh No Comments

The second law of thermodynamics gets trotted out all the time, especially in conversations about evolutionary biology. Less familiar are principles of maximum entropy production, which deal specifically with systems that are not in equilibrium (everything the same temperature). Most of the situations we experience involve differences in temperature, but there’s still a lot to learn about […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science Tagged With: entropy, nonequilibrium, science corner

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