BLACK-HOLE UNCERTAINTY ENTAILS AN INTRINSIC TIME ARROW A Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy
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Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking. A simulation of a system under time reversal shows how an intrinsic time arrow re-emerges, destroying the time reversal, when even slight failure of determinism occurs. PACS: 01.55.+b; 03.65.Bz; 04.70.Dy; 05.70.-a
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