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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254308003321

Titolo

Time in Physics / / edited by Renato Renner, Sandra Stupar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-68655-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 160 p. 30 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Collana

Tutorials, Schools, and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences , , 2522-0969

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Quantum theory

Mathematical physics

Quantum Physics

Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Julian Barbour: Arrows of Time in Unconfined Systems -- Maximilan P. E. Lock and Ivette Fuentes: Relativistic quantum clocks -- Nicolas Gisin: Time really passes. Science can't deny that -- Dominik Janzing: Statistical asymmetries between cause and effect -- Thomas Pashby: At what time does a quantum experiment have a result? -- Paolo Perinotti: Causal structures and the classication of order quantum computations -- Tony Short: Re-evaluating space-time -- Vlatko Vedral: Time, (inverse) temperature and cosmological inflation as entanglement -- Ämin Baumeler and Stefan Wolf: Causality - Complexity - Consistency: Can Space-Time Be Based on Logic and Computation?.

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most important questions concerning the foundations of physics, especially since the discovery of relativity and quantum theory, is the nature and role of time. In this book we bring together researchers from different areas of physics, mathematics, computer science and philosophy to discuss the role time plays in physics. There have been few books on this topic to date, and two of the key aims of the workshop and this book are to encourage more researchers to explore this area, and to pique students’ interest in the different roles time plays in physics.