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Autore |
Albert David Z |
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Titolo |
Time and chance / / David Z Albert |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 172 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Time reversal |
Physics - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2000. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface 1. Time-Reversal Invariance 2. Thermodynamics 3. Statistical Mechanics 4. The Reversibility Objections and the Past-Hypothesis 5. The Scope of Thermodynamics 6. The Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention 7. Quantum Mechanics Appendix: Gedankenexperiments with Heat Engines Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study is an attempt to get to the root of the tension between the best scientific pictures of the physical structure of the world and the everyday, empirical experience of it. This book examines the problem of the direction of time - the notion that whatever can happen, can happen backwards. |
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