Time and Chance / / David Z Albert.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2003] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE TIME-REVERSAL INVARIANCE
- CHAPTER TWO THERMODYNAMICS
- CHAPTER THREE STATISTICAL MECHANICS
- CHAPTER FOUR THE REVERSIBILITY OBJECTIONS AND THE PAST-HYPOTHESIS
- CHAPTER FIVE THE SCOPE OF THERMODYNAMICS
- CHAPTER SIX THE ASYMMETRIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTERVENTION
- CHAPTER SEVEN QUANTUM MECHANICS
- APPENDIX GEDANKENEXPERIMENTS WITH HEAT ENGINES
- INDEX