id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mtpboxsmqfgrnfqfgqzyll4rwi Eric Winsberg Can Conditioning on the "Past Hypothesis" Militate Against the Reversibility Objections?* 2004 16 .pdf application/pdf 6356 368 65 If the macroscopic law L is the second law of thermodynamics, then we almost certainly must begin by making plausible something like the following principle. of ice water, sitting alone in the universe, at the beginning of time. is a uniform probability distribution over the set of states that are compatible both with the current macrostate of the ice-water, and with the we applied to the glass of ice water, we can then predict that for any time at time P, it is highly likely that the universe is in a region of microstates overwhelmingly likely that, at time P, there was less ice in the cooler than that there is a uniform distribution over the set or microconditions compatible with the macrocondition of the cooler at time T, but rather with between the beginning of the universe and the time when the cooler lid ./cache/work_mtpboxsmqfgrnfqfgqzyll4rwi.pdf ./txt/work_mtpboxsmqfgrnfqfgqzyll4rwi.txt