Remarks on the Fundamentals of Time oder die Zeitd\"ammerung
History and Philosophy of Physics
2025-08-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This paper argues that the common identification of time with entropy is a category error. Entropy accounts for the arrow of time but not for time itself. Even in a maximally entropic universe the so called heat death temporal structure persists, grounded in the correlations of the quantum vacuum and the geometry of spacetime. The twilight of time is not its disappearance but its loss of directionality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.14312,
title = {Remarks on the Fundamentals of Time oder die Zeitd\"ammerung},
author = {Joseph S. Finberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14312},
year = {2025}
}