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dc.contributor.authorWeinert, Friedel*
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-25T10:01:41Z
dc.date.available2016-11-25T10:01:41Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationWeinert F (2016) The Time-Symmetric Gold Universe Reconsidered. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30(3): 231-243.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/10680
dc.descriptionyesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe present article proposes to re-examine the parity-of-reasoning or double-standard fallacy argument, which favours a time-symmetric Gold universe model over a cosmological arrow of time. There are two reasons for this re-examination. One is empirical: 1) the recent discovery of an expanding and accelerating universe questions the symmetry assumption of the Gold universe on empirical grounds; 2) the other is theoretical: the argument from t-symmetry fails to take into account some important aspects of the topology of phase space and recently developed typicality arguments. If the parity-of-reasoning argument, which depends on the t-symmetry of probability, is reconsidered in terms of the topology of phase space and typicality arguments, the double-standard fallacy argument loses much of its appeal. The Gold universe model itself suffers from unexplained dynamic asymmetries. The upshot of this paper is that the Gold universe model is implausible or far less plausible than asymmetric models.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.isreferencedbyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2017.1316119en_US
dc.subjectTime-symmetric Gold universe model; Cosmological arrow of time; Physical universe; Parity-of-reasoning argument; Double-standard fallacy argumenten_US
dc.titleThe Time-Symmetric Gold Universe Reconsidereden_US
dc.status.refereedyesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-01T15:50:21Z


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