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Time and chance /

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Albert, David Z. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.