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Time - Poincare Seminar 2010 (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Time - Poincare Seminar 2010 (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics, 63
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This eleventh volume in the Poincare 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 x 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 poeme en
prose by C. de Mitry. This book should be of broad general interest
to physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers.
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