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Time and chance / David Z Albert.
- Title
- Time and chance / David Z Albert.
- Author
- Albert, David Z.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| 2000 | Text | Request in advance | QC173.59.T53 A43 2000 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 172 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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 (very briefly) 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 backward."
- "The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0674003179 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00056732^
- OCLC
- 44469069
- SCSB-10390367
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library