The Significance of the Entropic Measure of Time in Natural Sciences

Abstract

The review presents arguments emphasizing the importance of using the entropic measure of time (EMT) in the study of irreversible evolving systems. The possibilities of this measure for obtaining the laws of system evolution are shown. It is demonstrated that EMT provides a novel and unified perspective on the principle of maximum entropy production (MEPP), which is established in the physics of irreversible processes, as well as on the laws of growth and evolution proposed in biology. Essentially, for irreversible processes, the proposed approach allows, in a certain sense, to identify concepts such as the duration of existence, MEPP, and natural selection. EMT has been used to generalize prior results, indicating that the intrinsic time of a system is logarithmically dependent on extrinsic (Newtonian) time.