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"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 (very briefly) is that i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Albert, David Z. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Time reversal.
Physics > Philosophy.
Inversion du temps.
Physique > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Physics > Relativity.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Zeit
Philosophie
Physik
Tijd.
Tijdsymmetrie.
Natuurkunde.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Time-reversal invariance
  • Thermodynamics
  • Statistical mechanics
  • The reversibility objections and the past-hypothesis
  • The scope of thermodynamics
  • The asymmetrics of knowledge and intervention
  • Quantum mechanics.

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