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This is the first of five papers comprising The Semantic Arrow of Time. The argument begins with a claim: computing's arrow of time is semantic, not thermodynamic. The direction in which meaning is preserved or destroyed across transactions…

This is the final paper in the five-part series The Semantic Arrow of Time. Part I identified the FITO category mistake -- treating forward temporal flow as sufficient for establishing meaning. Part II presented the constructive…

This is the fourth of five papers comprising The Semantic Arrow of Time. Parts I-III established that computing's hidden arrow of time is semantic rather than thermodynamic, that bilateral transaction protocols create causal order through a…

This is the third of five papers comprising The Semantic Arrow of Time. Parts I and II identified computing's hidden semantic arrow of time, the FITO category mistake, and presented the constructive alternative: the OAE link state machine…

Message passing is widely assumed to be a fundamental primitive of distributed systems. This paper argues that conventional message systems embed a category mistake: they misinterpret logical dependency relations as temporal propagation…

For fifty years, networking has fragmented whenever new workloads exposed hidden assumptions about time, ordering, failure, and trust. This paper argues that the current interconnect landscape -- NVLink, UALink, Ultra Ethernet,…

The CAP theorem is routinely treated as a systems law: under network partition, a replicated service must sacrifice either consistency or availability. The theorem is correct within its standard asynchronous network model, but operational…

Lamport's 1978 paper introduced the happens-before relation and logical clocks, freeing distributed systems from dependence on synchronized physical clocks. This is widely understood as a move away from Newtonian absolute time. We argue…

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) in monitored quantum systems are typically diagnosed using entanglement-based measures. Here, we develop a complementary thermodynamic perspective based on the arrow of time (AoT), which arises…

The relationship between 'information' and 'time' is explored in order to look for a 'solution' to the 'Problem of Time'. 'Time' is found to be the result of the conversion of energy into 'information'. The 'time' number or label we assign…

The Fischer--Lynch--Paterson (FLP) impossibility result is widely regarded as one of the most fundamental negative results in distributed computing: no deterministic protocol can guarantee consensus in an asynchronous system with even one…

Timely message delivery is a key enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to support wide range of context-dependent applications. Conventional time-related metrics (e.g. delay and jitter) fails to characterize the…

Recently, the Industry 5.0 is gaining attention as a novel paradigm, defining the next concrete steps toward more and more intelligent, green-aware and user-centric digital systems. In an era in which smart devices typically adopted in the…

In [Sch05a], it is argued that Boltzmann's intuition, that the psychological arrow of time is necessarily aligned with the thermodynamic arrow, is correct. Schulman gives an explicit physical mechanism for this connection, based on the…

One of the basic assumptions underlying Bell's theorem is the causal arrow of time, having to do with temporal order rather than spatial separation. Nonetheless, the physical assumptions regarding causality are seldom studied in this…

This study proposes a time-symmetric framework for quantum measurement that restores microscopic reversibility at the level of the dynamical description while remaining compatible with causality and thermodynamic consistency. Instead of…

Distributed AI inference pipelines rely heavily on timestamp-based observability to understand system behavior. This work demonstrates that even small clock skew between nodes can cause observability to become causally incorrect while the…

The interface between classical physics and quantum physics is explained from the point of view of quantum information theory (Feynman Processes). The interpretation depends on a hefty sacrifice: the classical determinism or the arrow of…

A dominant paradigm in visual intelligence treats semantics as a static property of latent representations, assuming that meaning can be discovered through geometric proximity in high dimensional embedding spaces. In this work, we argue…

In this paper, we introduce the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) as an enabler for semantics-empowered communication, a newly advocated communication paradigm centered around data's role and its usefulness to the communication's goal.…