David Z Albert
Time and Chance
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674011328
- author:
- David Z Albert
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2003
- Pages:
- 192
- Genre:
- Physics Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Time and Chance by David Z. Albert provides a clear and systematic account of the ultimate origins of statistical regularities and temporal irreversibility in our world. The book explores the tension between scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and everyday empirical experience, particularly with regards to the direction of time. Albert examines the Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world, revealing how it leads to a deep understanding of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and future. The book also generalizes this picture to the quantum-mechanical case, suggesting a connection between the problem of time direction and the measurement problem. This comprehensive work aims to be both an original contribution to scientific and philosophical understanding at an advanced level and an accessible introduction to the subject for interested students.
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