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It is proposed to consider a new primary time coordinate whose use resolves a number of standing paradoxes associated with current concepts of time, time asymmetrics, and irreversibility. The origin of absolute cosmic time and its undirectional coupling with local (geocentric) thermodynamics are stressed and formulated. The role of neutrinos in expanding space is discussed together with the question of the microscopic arrow of time (T violations in kaonic systems.) The failure of quantum mechanics to deduce time asymmetries and irreversibility in nature is demonstrated.
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Gal-Or, B. Cosmological origin of irreversibility, time, and time anisotropies. II. Gravitism. Found Phys 6, 623–637 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708943
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