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Can one go home again? In biology/physics/human constructions?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 12:47pm.

NYTimes this week:

Can Evolution Run in Reverse?  A Study Says Its a One Way Street

Relevant to evolving systems group in general and to relation of biology to physics and literature in particular.  Physicists as a group tend to prefer to think of things as irreversible.  Biologists?  Literary scholars?  Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again?  Is time, in physics/biology/literature  an address/location in a "block universe"?  Or simply another way of talking about change, itself often irreversible?   

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