LEADER 04131nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910438139203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-0348-0359-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-0348-0359-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000104364 035 $a(EBL)1205476 035 $a(OCoLC)830536905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000879845 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454606 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879845 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10853800 035 $a(PQKB)11439643 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-0348-0359-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1205476 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn854858859 035 $a(DLC) 2013932223 035 $a(PPN)169137198 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000104364 100 $a20130320d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTime $ePoincare Seminar 2010 /$fBertrand Duplantier, editor 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aBasel $cBirkhauser$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aProgress in mathematical physics ;$vv.63 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-0348-0766-X 311 $a3-0348-0358-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aForeword -- Time and Relativity, Thibault Damour -- (Ir)reversibility and Entropy, Cédric Villani -- (Ir)réversibilité et entropie, Cédric Villani -- Equalities and Inequalities: Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale, Christopher Jarzynski -- Time Measurement in the XXIst Century, Christophe Salomon -- Time?s Arrow and Eddington?s Challenge, Huw Price -- Image of Time?s Irreversibility, Catherine de Mitry -- Image de l'irréversibilité du Temps, Catherine de Mitry. 330 $aThis eleventh volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Time, which poses some of the most challenging questions in science. Five articles, written by the Fields medalist C. Villani, the two outstanding theoretical physicists T. Damour and C. Jarzynski, the leading experimentalist C. Salomon, and the famous philosopher of science H. Price, describe recent developments related to the mathematical, physical, experimental, and philosophical facets of this fascinating concept. These articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include a description of the manifold fundamental physical issues in play with time, in particular with the changes of perspective implied by Special and General Relativity; a mathematically precise discussion of irreversibility and entropy in the context of Boltzmann's and Vlasov's equations; a thorough survey of the recently developed ?thermodynamics at the nanoscale,? the scale most relevant to biological physics; a description of the new cold atom space clock PHARAO to be installed in 2015 onboard the International Space Station, which will allow a test of Einstein's gravitational shift with a record precision of 2 × 10-6, and enable a test of the stability over time of the fundamental constants of physics, an issue first raised by Dirac in 1937; and last, but not least, a logical and clarifying philosophical discussion of ?Time's arrow?, a phrase first coined by Eddington in 1928 in a challenge to physics to resolve the puzzle of the time-asymmetry of our universe, and echoed here in a short poème en prose by C. de Mitry. This book should be of broad general interest to physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers. 410 0$aProgress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ;$vv.63. 606 $aMathematical physics$vCongresses 606 $aTime$vCongresses 606 $aTime measurements$vCongresses 615 0$aMathematical physics 615 0$aTime 615 0$aTime measurements 676 $a529 701 $aDuplantier$b Bertrand$0732624 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438139203321 996 $aTime$94193278 997 $aUNINA