[@prigogine1997] points out, the wave function evolves deterministically; uncertainty appears only when the wave function collapses as a result of observation. The determinism of spatialized time is the basis of Einstein’s famous remark that “for us convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, although a persistent one” (as quoted in [@prigogine1997 p. 165]). His point was that time as we experience it flowing inexorably and irreversibly is an illusion; in relativistic space-time, the reality that underlies our daily illusory existence, we have access to all times. However, Prigogine [@prigogine1997] points out that the space-time of relativity is not necessarily spatialized; that is just the conventional interpretation. In any case, because it is apparently timeless, the physics of quantum theory and relativity is understood to represent our closest approximation to certain knowledge of the world.

Thermodynamics represents a rude exception to this timelessly serene picture. Here time has a direction, and when it is reversed the physics doesn’t work quite the same way. In the forward direction of time, the entropy of an isolated system increases until it reaches the maximum possible value given local constraints. In this sense the system is predictable. But when time 