By Robert Kiehn
Adventures in utilized Topology...Continuous topological evolution can be utilized to encode non equilibrium thermodynamic structures and irreversible procedures with no using facts or likelihood. Such tools are common and follow to structures from the microscale to the cosmological scale. Thermodynamic irreversibility and the arrow of time are artifacts of topological switch in 4 dimensions or extra.
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