时间之矢问题及其某些科学与哲学的回应

The Problem of the Arrow of Time and Some Scientific and Philosophic Responses

三十年来,时间之矢已成为科学与科学哲学深入研究的主题,但其在物理学基础问题上的蕴涵及意义,特别是时间的热力学之矢、电磁之矢、量子之矢及宇宙学之矢及其相互关系依然是富有争议的问题。文章旨在从史出发,着重反思与评价各自语境内朝着时间理解的某些历史,特别是最近的代表性观点及问题,分析研究关于时间之矢及其论争的关键性特征,以助于消除误解、澄清问题。

The arrows of time have been a subject of intensive research over the past three decades,yet their implications for the foundational problems of physics,most notably the time's thermodynamic arrow,electromagnetic arrow,quantum arrow and cosmological arrow,have remained a matter of great controversy.From a historical point of view,this paper is intended to clarify some historical views including its more recent results,and to investigate their key features of the time's arrows in the context of the main interpretive approaches of time's arrows.