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Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point - New Directions for the Physics of Time (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,923
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Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point - New Directions for the Physics of Time (Hardcover, New): Huw Price

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point - New Directions for the Physics of Time (Hardcover, New)

Huw Price

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The arrow of time and the meaning of quantum mechanics are two of the great mysteries of modern physics. This important new book throws fascinating new light on both issues, and connects them in a wholly original way.

Price shows that for over a century physicists have fallen repeatedly into the same trap when trying to understand the arrow of time: treating the past and future in different ways. To overcome this natural tendency, we need to imagine a point outside time - an Archimedean viewpoint as Price calls it - from which to think about the arrow of time in an unbiased way.

Taking this Archimedean viewpoint Price asks why we assume that the past affects the future but not vice-versa, and argues that causation is much more symmetric in microphysics: to a limited extent - the future does affect the past. Thus Price avoids the usual paradoxes of quantum mechanics, without succumbing to the rival paradoxes of causal loops and time travel.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 1996
First published: April 1996
Authors: Huw Price (Reader in Philosophy)
Dimensions: 244 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510095-2
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-19-510095-6
Barcode: 9780195100952

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