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The Nature of Irreversibility. A Study of Its Dynamics and Physical Origins.
Hollinger, H. B.; Zenzen, M. J.
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Paperback. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PH; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 545.
A dominant feature of our ordinary experience of the world is a sense of irreversible change: things lose form, people grow old, energy dissipates. On the other hand, a major conceptual scheme we use to describe the natural world, molecular dynamics, has reversibility at its core. The need to harmonize conceptual schemes and experience leads to several questions, one of which is the focus of this book. How does irreversibility at the macroscopic level emerge from the reversibility that prevails at the molecular level? Attempts to explain the emergence have emphasized probability, and assigned different probabilities to the forward and ... Read more
A dominant feature of our ordinary experience of the world is a sense of irreversible change: things lose form, people grow old, energy dissipates. On the other hand, a major conceptual scheme we use to describe the natural world, molecular dynamics, has reversibility at its core. The need to harmonize conceptual schemes and experience leads to several questions, one of which is the focus of this book. How does irreversibility at the macroscopic level emerge from the reversibility that prevails at the molecular level? Attempts to explain the emergence have emphasized probability, and assigned different probabilities to the forward and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
Series
The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401088978
SKU
V9789401088978
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