Chance in Physics [[electronic resource] ] : Foundations and Perspectives / / edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, Nino Zanghi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2001.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 292 p.) |
Disciplina | 530.15/92 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Statistical physics
Dynamical systems Probabilities Quantum physics Philosophy Complex Systems Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Quantum Physics Philosophy, general Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems |
ISBN | 3-540-44966-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Bayes, Boltzmann and Bohm: Probabilities in Physics -- Classical Statistical Mechanics -- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics -- Boltzmann’s Approach to Statistical Mechanics -- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann Equation -- The Direction of Time -- How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World? -- Quantum Mechanics -- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Bohmian Mechanics -- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation -- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Space Time and Probability -- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe -- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program -- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements -- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment -- Classical Versus Quantum Probabilities -- Chaotic Systems -- Does Quantum Chaos Exist? -- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium -- Einstein’s Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems -- Philosophy of Probability -- What Interpretation for Probability in Physics? -- Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability -- Interpreting Probabilities: What’s Interference Got to Do with It?. |
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Chance in Physics : Foundations and Perspectives / / edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, Nino Zanghi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2001.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 292 p.) |
Disciplina | 530.15/92 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Statistical physics
Dynamics Probabilities Quantum theory Philosophy Complex Systems Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Quantum Physics Philosophy, general Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems |
ISBN | 3-540-44966-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Bayes, Boltzmann and Bohm: Probabilities in Physics -- Classical Statistical Mechanics -- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics -- Boltzmann’s Approach to Statistical Mechanics -- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann Equation -- The Direction of Time -- How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World? -- Quantum Mechanics -- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Bohmian Mechanics -- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation -- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Space Time and Probability -- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe -- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program -- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements -- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment -- Classical Versus Quantum Probabilities -- Chaotic Systems -- Does Quantum Chaos Exist? -- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium -- Einstein’s Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems -- Philosophy of Probability -- What Interpretation for Probability in Physics? -- Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability -- Interpreting Probabilities: What’s Interference Got to Do with It?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139804103321 |
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Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding / / edited by Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXIII, 530 p. 51 illus.) |
Disciplina | 121 |
Collana | The Frontiers Collection |
Soggetto topico |
Gravitation
Knowledge, Theory of Physics Cosmology Metaphysics Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory Epistemology History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Philosophy: Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Time by Jonathan Duquette and Krishnamurti Ramasubramanian -- Why Spacetime Has a Life of its Own by James Robert Brown -- From Time to Time by Nathan Salmon -- Relativity Theory may not have the last Word on the Nature of Time: Quantum Theory and Probabilism by Nicholas Maxwell -- Space as a Source and as an Object of Knowledge: The Transformation of the Concept of Space in the Post-Kantian Philosophy of Geometry by Francesca Biagioli -- Space, Time and (how they) Matter by Valia Allori -- The Phenomenology of Space and Time: Husserl, Sartre, Derrida by Hans Herlof Grelland -- Time and Space in Ancient India, Pre-Philosophical Period by Michael Witzel and Nataliya Yanchevskaya -- Time in Physics and Time in Awareness by E. C. G. Sudarshan -- Physics: The Future’s Not Ours to See, by Tony Sudbury -- Nature’s Book Keeping System by Gerard ‘t Hooft -- An anomaly in space and time and the origin of dynamics by Joan A. Vaccaro -- Spacetime and Reality: Facing the Ultimate Judge by Vesselin Petkov -- Hermann Weyl’s Space-Time Geometry and its Impact on Theories of Fundamental Interactions by Norbert Straumann -- Space, Time, and Adynamical Explanation in the Relational Blockworld by W.M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein, and Timothy McDevitt -- Matter, Space, Time, and Motion: A Unified Gravitational Perspective by C. S. Unnikrishnan -- Spacetime is Doomed by George Musser -- Mathematics: Geometry and Physical Space by Mary Leng -- The Geometry of Manifolds and the Perception of Space by Raymond O. Wells, Jr -- Topos Theoretic Approach to Space and Time by Goro C. Kato -- Paradox? The Mathematics of Space-Time and the Limits of Human Understanding by Paul Ernest -- General Relativity, Time, and Determinism by James Isenberg -- “Now” has an infinitesimal positive duration by Reuben Hersh -- The Fundamental Problem of Dynamics by Julian Barbour -- What’s wrong with the Platonic ideal of space and time? by Lorenzo Sadun -- Biology/Cognitive Science: Syntactic Space by Rajesh Kasturirangan -- Time measurement in living systems: Human understanding and health implications by L Abhilash and Vijay Kumar Sharma -- The cellular space-the space of life by Pier Luigi Luisi -- The consciousness of space, the space of consciousness by Mauro Bergonzi and Pier Luigi Luisi -- Time and Suffering (False metaphors, (de)synchronous times, and internal dynamics) by Norman Sieroka -- Evolutionary Time and the Creation of the Space of Life by Randall E. Auxier -- Computer Science: A computational mathematics view of space, time and complexity by David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein -- The Black Hole in Mathematics by A. K. Dewdney -- Gödel’s Ontological Dreams by Gary Mar -- ‘Photographing the Footsteps of Time’: Space and Time in Charles Babbage’s Calculating Engines by Doron Swade -- Gödel incompleteness and the empirical sciences by N. C. A. da Costa and F. A. Doria -- Miscellaneous: The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography by Robert T. Tally Jr -- Time, Space, and the Human Geographies of Opportunity by Donald G. Janelle -- Losing Time and Space: Experiencing Immersion by Diana J. Reichenbach. <. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910739403503321 |
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