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Time and Chance.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (188 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Time and ChanceDDC classification:
  • 530.1/1
LOC classification:
  • QC173
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Time-Reversal Invariance -- 2. Thermodynamics -- 3. Statistical Mechanics -- 4. The Reversibility Objections and the Past-Hypothesis -- 5. The Scope of Thermodynamics -- 6. The Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention -- 7. Quantum Mechanics -- Appendix: Gedankenexperiments with Heat Engines -- Index.
Summary: This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Time-Reversal Invariance -- 2. Thermodynamics -- 3. Statistical Mechanics -- 4. The Reversibility Objections and the Past-Hypothesis -- 5. The Scope of Thermodynamics -- 6. The Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention -- 7. Quantum Mechanics -- Appendix: Gedankenexperiments with Heat Engines -- Index.

This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards.

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