(Dis-)Solving the Puzzle of the Arrow of Radiation
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I criticize two accounts of the temporal asymmetry of electromagnetic radiationÐthat of Huw Price, whose account centrally involves a reinterpretation of Wheeler and Feynman's in®nite absorber theory, and that of Dieter Zeh. I then offer some reasons for thinking that the purported puzzle of the arrow of radiation does not present a genuine puzzle in need of a solution.
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