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Change, Time and Information Geometry*
Ariel Caticha
Department of Physics, University at Albany-SUNY,
Albany, NY 12222, USA.†
Ariel Caticha
Department of Physics, University at Albany-SUNY,
Albany, NY 12222, USA.†
Dynamics, the study of change, is normally the subject of mechanics.
Whether the chosen mechanics is “fundamental” and deterministic
or “phenomenological” and stochastic, all changes are described relative
to an external time. Here we show that once we define what we are talking
about, namely, the system, its states and a criterion to distinguish
among them, there is a single, unique, and natural dynamical law for
irreversible processes that is compatible with the principle of maximum
entropy. In this alternative dynamics changes are described relative to an
internal, “intrinsic” time which is a derived, statistical concept defined
and measured by change itself. Time is quantified change.
Whether the chosen mechanics is “fundamental” and deterministic
or “phenomenological” and stochastic, all changes are described relative
to an external time. Here we show that once we define what we are talking
about, namely, the system, its states and a criterion to distinguish
among them, there is a single, unique, and natural dynamical law for
irreversible processes that is compatible with the principle of maximum
entropy. In this alternative dynamics changes are described relative to an
internal, “intrinsic” time which is a derived, statistical concept defined
and measured by change itself. Time is quantified change.
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AIP Keywords: information theory, dynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, entropy, probability, physics fundamentals
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