Cuán insatisfactoria es la postulación de baja entropía en el universo temprano
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Hipótesis del Pasado, entropía, segunda leyResumen
Este artículo examina la Hipótesis del Pasado (Past Hypothesis, PH), según la cual el universo comenzó en un estado inicial de entropía extremadamente baja, condición considerada necesaria para fundamentar la explicación estadística de la segunda ley de la termodinámica. Se argumenta que, aunque la PH cumple una función formal dentro de la explicación estadística de la segunda ley, su mera postulación tiene un costo epistémico significativo, pues introduce como condición inicial precisamente un estado que el propio enfoque estadístico caracteriza como extraordinariamente atípico. Sin una explicación adecuada de dicha condición, la imagen científica del mundo permanece incompleta, pues quedaría pendiente una fundamentación satisfactoria de la segunda ley, y con ella, la flecha del tiempo y la irreversibilidad de los procesos físicos.
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